I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

All these have come down to us except the eighth of which nothing remains but the index. The Attic Nights are valuable for the insight they afford into the nature of the society and pursuits of those times and for its many excerpts from works of lost ancient authors. A volume of selections with notes and vocabulary was publiAulus Gelliusd by Nall (London 1888).

Aulus Gellius (ca. 125 – after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.