[65] Heinze discusses more generally the rhetorical habit of Ovid in _Virgils epische technik_, 434. [66] See above, page 126. [67] _History of Roman Literature_, 309. [68] Encyclopedia Britannica. [69] Apuleius, born about 125 A.D., and probably educated at Carthage, where he passed much of his life, became a rhetor at Rome about 150, and soon thereafter published the _Metamorphoses_. _Florida_ is the title given to a collection of excerpts from what we should call his lectures (see Chapter VIII, 230). Nettleship (in an essay on Nonius Marcellus, _Lectures and Essays_, 282) calls him “a very striking representative of his age.” Though his work is largely translation or compilation, he has caught the fancy of several English _literati_, and was made by Pater one of the _personæ_ in the twentieth chapter of _Marius the Epicurean_. Adlington’s translation (1566) of the _Metamorphoses_ has been reprinted with an introduction by Seccombe, and revised for the Loeb Classical Library by Gaselee. The separable Cupid and Psyche chapters (Books IV-VI), often translated, appear in the fifth chapter of Pater’s _Marius_, and have been again translated by Purser (London, 1910), with a suggestive introduction on Apuleius as a rhetor. Butler has translated also the _Florida_. [70] “L’art de composition faiblit, comme il arrive toujours quand la sincérité du sentiment diminue; car c’est la préoccupation sincère d’une idée dominante qui maintient d’un bout à l’autre l’unité de ton et l’harmonie; quand le bel esprit l’emporte, il s’amuse aux détails, il s’attache au ‘morceau,’ et n’a plus la force de lier l’ensemble.” Croiset, _Histoire de la littérature grecque_, vol. V (_Période Alexandrine_), page 158. [71] See Chapter IV. II. [72] These dates are taken from Wolff’s admirable summary of the Greek Romances as an Alexandrian derivative in the opening chapter of his _Greek Romances in Elizabethan Fiction_ (New York, 1912, Columbia University Press). CHAPTER VIII RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC A. THE PERVASIVENESS OF RHETORIC