Aelianus, Claudius,
Roman rhetorician who wrote in Greek; born Praeneste ca.170, died ca.235.His On the Characteristics of Animals, an unsystematic collection of largely paradoxical animal stories, was a major source of Byz. zoological lore used by writers in many genres and esp. by ... ...
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