Produced by Curtis Weyant, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Case Western Reserve University Preservation Department Digital Library) [Transcriber's Note: Out-of-order entries in the endnotes have been corrected.] THE APOLOGIA AND FLORIDA OF APULEIUS OF MADAURA TRANSLATED BY H.E. BUTLER FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1909 HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE PREFACE For the purposes of this translation I have used Helm's text of the _Apologia_, and Van der Vliet's text of the _Florida_. Both texts are published by the firm of Teubner, to whom I am indebted for permission to use their publications as the basis of this work. Divergences from the text are indicated in the footnotes, and I have made a few, perhaps unnecessary, expurgations. For the elucidation of the magical portions of the _Apologia_ I am specially indebted to Abt's commentary (_Apologie des Apuleius_, Giessen, 1906). I also owe much to the articles on Apuleius in Schanz's _Geschichte der roemischen Litteratur_, and in Pauly-Wissowa's _Real-Encyclopaedie_, and to Hildebrand's commentary on the works of Apuleius (Leipzig, 1842). H.E. BUTLER. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 5 THE APOLOGIA 19 THE FLORIDA 159 NOTES ON THE APOLOGIA 219 NOTES ON THE FLORIDA 235 INTRODUCTION