Chapter I: 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.

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INTRODUCTION 5

THE APOLOGIA 19

THE FLORIDA 159

NOTES ON THE APOLOGIA 219

NOTES ON THE FLORIDA 235