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  Aelian or Aelianus may refer to:

  • Aelianus Tacticus
    Aelianus Tacticus

    Aelianus Tacticus was a Hellenistic Greece military writer of the 2nd century, resident at Rome.Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks , is dedicated to Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it....
    , Greek military writer of the 2nd century, who lived in Rome
  • Casperius Aelianus
    Casperius Aelianus

    Casperius Aelianus, who served as Praetorian Prefect under the emperors Domitian and Nerva, was a Praetorian Prefect loyal to the Roman Emperor Domitian, the last of the Flavian dynasty....
    , Praetorian Prefect, executed by Trajan
  • Claudius Aelianus
    Claudius Aelianus

    Claudius Aelianus , often seen as just 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....
    , Roman teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek
  • Lucius Aelianus, one of the thirty tyrants under the Roman empire
  • Aelianus Meccius
    Aelianus Meccius

    Aelianus Meccius was an ancient physician, who must have lived in the 2nd century BC, as he is mentioned by Galen as the oldest of his tutors. His father is supposed to have also been a physician, as Aelianus is said by Galen to have made an epitome of his father's anatomy writings....
    , ancient Greek physician, tutor of Galen
  • Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus
    Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus

    Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus was a patrician who twice served as consul, in 45 and 74. He was the adopted nephew of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of the emperor Claudius....
    , adopted nephew of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of Claudius; consul 45 and 74 AD
  • Aelianus (rebel)
    Aelianus (rebel)

    Aelianus was together with Amandus the leader of an insurrection of Gallic peasants, called Bagaudae, in the reign of Diocletian. It was put down by the Caesar Maximianus Hemilius....
    , leader of the Bagaudae peasant rebels