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    Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus (Greek: Πόπλιος Αἴλιος Ἀριστείδης Θεόδωρος; 117–181 AD) was a Greek orator and author considered to be a prime example...
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    Hadrian (/ˈheɪdriən/ HAY-dree-ən; Latin: Publius Aelius Hadrianus [(h)adriˈjaːnus]; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian...
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    Pius, who succeeded Hadrian the same year. Aelius was born Lucius Ceionius Commodus, and became Lucius Aelius Caesar upon his adoption as Hadrian's heir...
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    physician Galen on the habits of the Antonine elite, the orations of Aelius Aristides on the temper of the times, and the constitutions preserved in the...
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    known as members of the Second Sophistic include Nicetes of Smyrna, Aelius Aristides, Dio Chrysostom, Herodes Atticus, Favorinus, Philostratus, Lucian,...
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    physician Galen on the habits of the Antonine elite, the orations of Aelius Aristides on the temper of the times, and the constitutions preserved in the...
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    was one of the three kinds of Cyclopes distinguished by scholia to Aelius Aristides. Similarly, possibly deriving from Nicophon's comedy, the first-century...
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    froze at the cold north celestial pole before it could right itself. Aelius Aristides names him Aster or Asterius ('star' or 'starry') and says that Athens'...
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    a native of Smyrna. Another famous resident of the same period was Aelius Aristides. After a destructive earthquake in 178 AD, Smyrna was rebuilt in the...
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  • the rhetorician Aelius Aristides, who had studied under Alexander. Capitolinus, M. Ant. 2 Marcus Aurelius, i. ~ 10 Aelius Aristides, Vol. i. Orat. xii...
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