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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
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
liet's text of the
lorida.
B
o
t
h texts are
published by the irm of Teubner, to whom
I
am indebted for permission to use their
publications as the basis of this work. Diver
gences from the text are indicated in the foot
notes, and
I
have made a few, perhaps un
necessary, expurgations. For the elucidation
of the magical portions of the
Apologia
I
am
specially indebted to Abt's commentary
(Apologi
�
des Apuleius,
Giessen, 1906).
I
also owe much
to the articles on Apuleius in Schanz's
Geschichte
der romischen Litteratur,
and in Pauly-Wissowa's
Real-Encyclopidie,
and to Hildebrand's com
mentary on the works of Apuleius (Leipzig,
184z).
H.
E. BUTLER.
AZ
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION
5
1
9
1
5
9
219
THE ApOLOGIA
THE FLORIDA .
NOTES ON THE ApOLOGIA
2
35
NOTES ON THE FLORIDA .
INTRODUCTION
OUR
authorities for the life of A
�
us are in the
main the Apologia, the Florida, and the last book of
the Metamorphoses. He has a passion for taking his
audience into his conidence, and as a result it is not
hard to reconstruct a considerable portion of
his
life.
He was a native of Madaura, the modern Mdaurusch,
a Numidian town loftily situated above the valley of the
Medjerda. The town was a lourishing Roman colony
(Apol.
24), and the family of Apuleius was among the
wealthiest and most important of the town. His
father attained to the position of duumvir, the highest
municipal oice (Apol. loco cit.), and left his son the
considerable fortune of 2,000,000 sesterces (£20,000).
As to the date of Apuleius' birth there is some uncer
tainty. But as he was the fellow student (Florida 16)
at Rome of Aemilianus Strabo (consul 156
A.D.
)
,
and
was considerably younger than his wife Pudentilla,
whom he married about 155
A. D.,
when she had
'barely passed the age of forty ' (Apol. 89), the
estimate which places his birth about 125
A. D.
cannot
be far wrong. His name is generally given as Lucius
Apuleius, though the only authority for the praenomen
is the evidence of late MSS., and it is not improbable
that the origin of the name is to be found in the
curious identiication of himself with Lucius, the
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