Gellus, Aulus, a Latin grammarian, born at Rome; author of “Noctes Atticæ,” a miscellany professing to have been composed in a country house near Athens during winter nights, and ranging confusedly over topics of all kinds, interesting as abounding in extracts from ancient writings no longer extant.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Gellert, Christian * Gelon