Transcriber's Notes
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OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1909
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
For the purposes of this translation I have used Helm's text of theApologia, and Van der Vliet's text of the Florida. Both texts arepublished by the firm of Teubner, to whom I am indebted for permissionto use their publications as the basis of this work. Divergences fromthe text are indicated in the footnotes, and I have made a few,perhaps unnecessary, expurgations. For the elucidation of the magicalportions of the Apologia I am specially indebted to Abt's commentary(Apologie des Apuleius, Giessen, 1906). I also owe much to thearticles on Apuleius in Schanz's Geschichte der römischenLitteratur, and in Pauly-Wissowa's Real-Encyclopädie, and toHildebrand's commentary on the works of Apuleius (Leipzig, 1842).
H.E. BUTLER.
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 5 |
| The Apologia | 19 |
| The Florida | 159 |
| Notes on the Apologia | 219 |
| Notes on the Florida | 235 |
Our authorities for the life of Apuleius are in the main theApologia, the Florida, and the last book of the Metamorphoses.He has a passion for taking his audience into his confidence, and as aresult it is not hard to reconstruct a considerable portion of hislife. He was a native of Madaura, the modern Mdaurusch, a Numidiantown loftily situated above the valley of the Medjerda. The town was aflourishing Roman colony (Apol. 24), and the family of Apuleius wasamong the wealthiest and most important of the town