A collection of anecdotes; unpublished or secret stories, especially historical ones.
From Greek 'anekdotos' (an- 'not' + ekdotos 'published'). Originally referred to Procopius's secret stories about Byzantine emperors, then generalized to mean any collection of unpublished tales.
The most famous 'Anecdota' is Procopius's scandalous 6th-century account of Byzantine court life, so juicy and damaging it was literally hidden for centuries—the original historical gossip.
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