The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura, by Lucius Apuleius, translated by H.E. Butler
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About this eBook
- Author
- Apuleius
- Title
- The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
- Credits
- Produced by Curtis Weyant, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Case Western Reserve University Preservation Department Digital Library)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
- Subject
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- Translations into English
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 26294
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26294
- Release Date
- August 13, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE APOLOGIA AND FLORIDA OF APULEIUS OF MADAURA
- 2.TRANSLATED By H.E. BUTLER FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 5.INTRODUCTION
- 6.THE APOLOGIA
- 7.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.
- 8.NOTES — THE APOLOGIA — THE FLORIDA
- 9.FOOTNOTES
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