1. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 21.12 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •gellius, aulus, on bookshops Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 282 | 21.12. I shall tell you what wisdom they show in doing this â and don't you declare everything I say is nonsense; perhaps, however, it is anything but nonsense â for surely you have noticed what some of our booksellers do? Int. Just what is your reason for asking me this? Dio. Because they, knowing that old books are in demand since better written and on better paper, bury the worst specimens of our day in grain in order that they may take on the same colour as the old ones, and after ruining the books into the bargain they sell them as old. But what was it that you have been wanting all this while to ask me? |
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2. Martial, Epigrams, 1.2.7, 1.117.13, 4.72.2, 13.3.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •gellius, aulus, on bookshops Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 275 |
3. Martial, Epigrams, 1.2.7, 1.117.13, 4.72.2, 13.3.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •gellius, aulus, on bookshops Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 275 |
4. Athenaeus, The Learned Banquet, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •gellius, aulus, on bookshops Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 275 |
5. Galen, On My [His] Own Books, 19.8.4.269, 19.8-10.271, 273 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 275 |
6. Gellius, Attic Nights, 1.7, 2.3.5, 5.4, 5.4.1, 13.31.1-13.31.6, 18.4.1-18.4.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •gellius, aulus, on bookshops Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 275 |
7. Lucian, The Ignorant Book-Collector, 4, 1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 282 |
8. Epigraphy, Cil, 6.9218 Tagged with subjects: •gellius, aulus, on bookshops Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 275 |
9. Epist., Carm., 1.19.40 Tagged with subjects: •gellius, aulus, on bookshops Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 275 |
10. Anon., Commentaria In Aristotelem Graeca, 18.128.5-18.128.9 Tagged with subjects: •gellius, aulus, on bookshops Found in books: Johnson and Parker (2009), ?Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 282 |