The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
by Apuleius
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Chapters (253)
- 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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