Aelian

Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός

Claudius Aelianus

Country

Roman Empire

Languages

Koine Greek

Dates

c. 175 - c. 235

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Claudius Aelianus, commonly Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222. He spoke Greek so fluently that he was called "honey-tongued" ; Roman-born, he preferred Greek authors, and wrote in a slightly archaizing Greek himself.