Aulus Gellius
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Roman author of Attic Nights, source on the Flamen Dialis
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…Roman sources, particularly the writer Aulus Gellius, who compiled a remarkable collection of miscellaneous learned information in the 2nd century CE, describe the belief that a specific nerve or vein ran from the fourth finger of the left hand.…
Professor Catherine SteelThe Ancients · Rise of Julius Caesar · 14:13 · Mar 2025
…And there are three particularly important priesthoods, one of which is the Flamen of Jupiter, Dialis, an old form, so Flamen Dialis. And the weird thing about this office is it's regarded as very important, but it was surrounded by a whole set of taboos and restrictions that we know about from the later writer Aulus Gellius, who has a chapter on the Flamen…
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