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![]() The were before all centred He seems to philosophy, and magic. African Apuleius figures of is Roman is literature. The Apologia referred to above is his speech for the defence, which Avas doubtless successful and he afterwards settled at Carthage, whence he journeyed through various African towns giving philosophical lectures and living the life of one of the regular Sophists of the Empire, from whom he only differed in that he wrote and lectured The date of his death in Latin instead of in Greek. He married her, and in vexation at the unequal match her relations brought an action against him charging him with having won her love by means of magic. On the way he fell ill at Oea (supposed to be the modern Tripoli), and was nursed by a rich widow named Aerailia Pudentilla, who was rather older than himself. was born of good family at Madaura, a town on the confines of Numidia and Gaetujia, about the end of the first quarter of the second century a.d., and while still quite a young man set out on a journey to Alexandria. PUTNAM'S SONS : : MCMXXIV First printed 1915 Reprinted 1919, 1922, 192t Printed in Great Britain by Woods and Sous, Ltd., London, N,i, CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PAQE V BIBLIOGRAPHY xi THE GOLDEN ASS OF APULELUS : TO THE READER XV LIFE OF LUCIUS APULEIUS xix PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS SON TEXT AND TRANSLATION INDEX /- xxiii 1 597 INTRODUCTION The one of the most curious We know something of his life from his Apologia, and it is quite possible that at the beginning and at the end of the Metamorphoses the description of Lucius, the hero of the He story, may contain a few autobiographical details. ![]() ![]() GASELEE FELLOW AND LIBRARIAN i)F MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDSE L.ONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD. APULEIUS THE GOLDEN ASS BEING THE METAMORPHOSES OF LUCIUS APULEIUS \ APULEIUS APULEIUS THE GOLDEN ASS BEING THE METAMORPHOSES OF ^ LUCIUS APULEIUS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY ADLINGTON W. ![]() Faxo eum sero, immo statim, immo vero iam nunc ut et praecedentis dicacitatis et instantis curiositatis paeniteat.&SI K^J Presented to the LffiRARIES of the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO by MARGARET PHILLIPS THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY E. At ego scilicet Ulixi astu deserta vice Calypsonis aeternam solitudinem flebo.’ Et porrecta dextera meque Panthiae suae demonstrato, ‘ At hic bonus’ inquit ‘ Consiliator Aristomenes, qui fugae huius auctor fuit, et nunc moirti proximus iam humi prostratus grabatulo succubans iacet, et haec omnia conspicit, impune se laturum meas contumelias putat. Infit illa cum gladio ‘ Hic est, soror Panthia, carus Endymion, hic Catamitus meus, qui diebus ac noctibus illusit aetatulam meam: hic, qui meis amoribus subterhabitis non solum me diffamat probris, verum etiam fugam instruit. Ac dum infimum deiectus, obliquo aspectu, quid rei sit grabatuli sollertia munitus opperior, video mulieres duas altioris aetatis lucernam lucidam gerebat una, spongiam et nudum gladium altera hoc habitu Socratem bene quietum circumstetere. Tunc ego sensi naturalitus quosdam affectus in contrarium provenire: nam ut lacrimae saepicule de gaudio prodeunt, ita et in illo nimio pavore risum nequivi continere, de Aristomene testudo factus. ![]()
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