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Who kept Rome’s oldest voices from fading? Aulus Gellius.

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By lamplight in Attica and under porticoes in Rome, he gathered curiosities—grammar, law, philosophy—into Attic Nights.

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Not a system, a mosaic.

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He quotes the lost and questions the living, from Fronto to Favorinus.

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Through him, archaic Latin breathes—and the mind of Rome endures.