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 iv
... taken ill at Oëa , a maritime town , which some geographers have identified with the modern Tripoli . A young man , named Pontianus , whom * See Defence , p . 256 . he had known as a fellow - student at Athens iv BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
... taken ill at Oëa , a maritime town , which some geographers have identified with the modern Tripoli . A young man , named Pontianus , whom * See Defence , p . 256 . he had known as a fellow - student at Athens iv BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
Page v
... young nor handsome , but she was virtuous , fond , and very rich . Apuleius , if not poor , was , at least , reduced in circumstances , in consequence of his long - continued course of study , his protracted residence in foreign ...
... young nor handsome , but she was virtuous , fond , and very rich . Apuleius , if not poor , was , at least , reduced in circumstances , in consequence of his long - continued course of study , his protracted residence in foreign ...
Page vi
... young man ; but that is just the sort of case in which magic would be quite superfluous . ” As if to give the more force to this argument , the prosecutors were indiscreet enough to lay great stress on the graces and ac- complishments ...
... young man ; but that is just the sort of case in which magic would be quite superfluous . ” As if to give the more force to this argument , the prosecutors were indiscreet enough to lay great stress on the graces and ac- complishments ...
Page 9
... gives rebutters and surrebutters as he used to do . ' Brought to bed of an elephant . ] - Pliny asserts that the elephant goes with young ten years . : ments , she frustrated this design and as Medea BOOK I. 9 TALE OF ARISTOMENES .
... gives rebutters and surrebutters as he used to do . ' Brought to bed of an elephant . ] - Pliny asserts that the elephant goes with young ten years . : ments , she frustrated this design and as Medea BOOK I. 9 TALE OF ARISTOMENES .
Page 32
... cruel lot . ] — He puns on the resemblance of the words ' scæva ' and ' sæva ; ' but the play on these words cannot be preserved in English . of his predictions , when a young man of a 32 THE GOLDEN ASS OF APULEIUS .
... cruel lot . ] — He puns on the resemblance of the words ' scæva ' and ' sæva ; ' but the play on these words cannot be preserved in English . of his predictions , when a young man of a 32 THE GOLDEN ASS OF APULEIUS .
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