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Title: The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura

Author: Lucius Apuleius

Translator: H. E. Butler

Release Date: August 13, 2008 [EBook #26294]

Language: English

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THE APOLOGIA AND FLORIDA
OF APULEIUS OF MADAURA

TRANSLATED

BY H.E. BUTLER

FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1909

HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE

PREFACE

For the purposes of this translation I have used Helm's text of the
_Apologia_, and Van der Vliet's text of the _Florida_. Both texts are
published by the firm of Teubner, to whom I am indebted for permission
to use their publications as the basis of this work. Divergences from
the text are indicated in the footnotes, and I have made a few,
perhaps unnecessary, expurgations. For the elucidation of the magical
portions of the _Apologia_ I am specially indebted to Abt's commentary
(_Apologie des Apuleius_, Giessen, 1906). I also owe much to the
articles on Apuleius in Schanz's _Geschichte der roemischen
Litteratur_, and in Pauly-Wissowa's _Real-Encyclopaedie_, and to
Hildebrand's commentary on the works of Apuleius (Leipzig, 1842).

H.E. BUTLER.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 5

THE APOLOGIA 19

THE FLORIDA 159

NOTES ON THE APOLOGIA 219

NOTES ON THE FLORIDA 235

INTRODUCTION