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THE APOLOGIA AND FLORIDA OF APULEIUS OF MADAURA
TRANSLATED By H.E. BUTLER FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE APOLOGIA
THE FLORIDA
The exordium to a discourse delivered in a town through which Apuleius passes in the course of a journey.
Man's sight compared with that of the eagle.
The story of Marsyas and his challenge to Apollo.
The piper Antigenidas.
Fragment from the opening of a discourse delivered in a theatre.
India and the Gymnosophists.
On Alexander and false philosophers.
A eulogy of the proconsul of Africa.
A defence of himself against his critics and a laudation of the proconsul Severianus.
On Providence and its marvels.
A comparison between those who lack wealth and those who lack virtue.
On the Parrot.
A comparison between the eloquence of the philosopher and the song of birds.
On Crates the Cynic.
Of the isle of Samos and Pythagoras.
An oration of thanks to Aemilianus Strabo and the senate of Carthage for decreeing a statue in his honour.
Fragment of a panegyric on Scipio Orfitus.
A discourse pronounced before the Carthaginians, incidentally treating of Thales and Protagoras.
A story of the physician Asclepiades.
A panegyric on his own talents.
An excuse for delay caused by social duties.
On the Virtues of Crates.
On the uncertainty of fortune.
An improvisation.
The fable of the fox and the crow.
A transition from Greek to Latin.
NOTES
THE APOLOGIA
THE FLORIDA
FOOTNOTES
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