o Socratis_). For
the relation between Lucian's [Greek: Ovos] and the _Metamorphoses_ of
Apuleius, see Rohde, _Uber Lucians Schrift [Greek: Loukios]_ (1869),
and Burger, _De Lucio Patrensi_ (1887). On the style of Apuleius
consult Kretzschmann, _De Latinitate L. Apulei_ (1865), and Koziol,
_Der Stil des A._ (1872). There is a complete English translation of
the works of Apuleius in Bohn's Classical Library. The translations
and imitations of the _Golden Ass_ in modern languages are numerous:
in English, by Adlington, 1566 and later eds. (reissued in the Tudor
translations and Temple Classics), Taylor (1822) (including the
philosophical works), Head (1851). Of the Cupid and Psyche episode
there are recent translations by Robert Bridges (1895) (in verse),
Stuttaford (1903); and it is beautifully introduced by Walter Pater
into his _Marius the Epicurean_. This episode has afforded the subject
of a drama to Thomas Heywood, and of narrative poems to Shakerley
Marmion, Mrs. Tighe, and William Morris (in the _Earthly Paradise_).

APULIA (sometimes APPULIA in manuscripts but never in inscriptions), the
district inhabited in ancient times by the Apuli. Strictly a Samnite
tribe (see SAMNITES) settled round Mount Garganus on the east coast of
Italy (Strabo vi. 3. 11), the Apuli mingled with the Iapygian tribes of
that part of the coast (Dauni, Peucetii, Poediculi) who, like the
Messapii, had come from Illyria, so that the name Apulia reached down to
the border of the ancient Calabria. Almost the only monument of Samnite
speech from the district is the famous _Tabula Bantina_ from Bantia, a
small city just inside the Peucetian part of Apulia, on the Lucanian
border. This inscription is one of the latest and in some ways the most
important monument of Oscan, though showing what appear to be some
southern peculiarities (see OSCA LINGUA). Its date is almost certainly
between 118 and 90 B.C., and it shows that Latin had not even then
spread over the district (cf. LUCANIA). Far older than this are some
coins from Ausculum and Teate (later known as Teanum Apulum), of which
the earliest belong to the 4th century B.C. Roman or Latin colonies were
few, Luceria (planted 314 B.C.) in the north and Brundisium (soon after
268) being the chief. (See R.S. Conway, _Italic Dialects_, xxviii.-xxx.
pp. 15 f.; and Mommsen's introduction to the opening sections of
_C.I.L._ ix.) (R. S. C.)

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