title: Apuleius: Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), Volume II, Books 7-11 (Loeb Classical Library No. 453)
author: Apuleius
description: J. Arthur Hanson was at the time of his death in 1985 Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His publications include <i>Roman Theater-Temples</i>.
zlib_text: THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
  EDITED BY
  E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D.
  T. E. PAGE, Lirr.D.
  W. H. D. ROUSE, Lirr.D.
  APULEIUS
  THE GOLDEN ASS
  BEING THE METAMORPHOSES OF
  LUCIUS APULEIUS
  
  APULEIUS
  [j J.BERNOULLI
  Komischf Ikonognpt,* I^8fJ
  
  APULEIUS
  THE GOLDEN ASS
  BEING THE METAMORPHOSES OF
  LUCIUS APULEIUS
  WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
  W. ADLINGTON
  (1566)
  REVISED BY
  S. GASELEE
  FELLOW AND LIBRARIAN OF MAGDALENE
  COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
  LONDON
  : WILLIAM HEINEMANN
  NEW YORK
  :
  G.
  P. PUTNAM'S SONS
  MCMXXII
  
  First printed 1915.
  Reprinted 1019, 1022.
  
  CONTENTS
  INTRODUCTION
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  THE GOLDEN ASS OF APULEIUS
  :
  TO THE READER
  LIFE OF LUCIUS APULEIUS
  PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS SON
  TEXT AND TRANSLATION
  INDEX
  Stack
  Annex
  PAGE
  V
  xi
  xv
  xix
  xxiii
  1
  597
  
  INTRODUCTION
  THE
  African Apuleius
  is
  one of
  the most
  curious
  figures of Roman
  literature.
  We know something
  of his
  life from his Apologia, and
  it is quite possible
  that at the beginning and
  at the end of the Meta-
  morphoses the description of Lucius, the hero of the
  st