The Works of Apuleius: Comprising the Metamorphoses, Or Golden Ass, the God of Socrates, the Florida, and His Defence, Or A Discourse on MagicG. Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 533 pages |
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Page 34
... fair cups already half filled with wine , only waiting for the admixture of water . Near these , also , was a flagon , with a gradually dilated orifice , for the more convenient pouring forth of the wine ; the whole being a whet , as it ...
... fair cups already half filled with wine , only waiting for the admixture of water . Near these , also , was a flagon , with a gradually dilated orifice , for the more convenient pouring forth of the wine ; the whole being a whet , as it ...
Page 65
... fair , I strove , in the midst of that crowd of Greeks , to utter the august name of Cæsar , in the native language , and I cried out O ! distinctly and sono- rously ; but that was all , for the name of Cæsar I was not able to pronounce ...
... fair , I strove , in the midst of that crowd of Greeks , to utter the august name of Cæsar , in the native language , and I cried out O ! distinctly and sono- rously ; but that was all , for the name of Cæsar I was not able to pronounce ...
Page 90
... fair and divine , and who , gaining the victory over his rival , leads off the soul as his bride . " According to a third expositor , the mythus is a moral one . It is intended to represent the dangers to which nuptial fidelity was ...
... fair and divine , and who , gaining the victory over his rival , leads off the soul as his bride . " According to a third expositor , the mythus is a moral one . It is intended to represent the dangers to which nuptial fidelity was ...
Page 121
... fair light of day , though she was in haste to finish her errand , she was seized with a rash curiosity : Behold , ' said she , what a foolish bearer am I of divine beauty , who do not even take the least portion of it , that I may by ...
... fair light of day , though she was in haste to finish her errand , she was seized with a rash curiosity : Behold , ' said she , what a foolish bearer am I of divine beauty , who do not even take the least portion of it , that I may by ...
Page 133
... fair light of day , and all things were illuminated by the splendid chariot of the sun , a certain person , one of the robbers ' comrades , arrived ; for so he appeared to be , by their mutual salutations . This man sat down at the ...
... fair light of day , and all things were illuminated by the splendid chariot of the sun , a certain person , one of the robbers ' comrades , arrived ; for so he appeared to be , by their mutual salutations . This man sat down at the ...
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