Chapter 41: And yet it is a greater crime, &c. An allusion to the

vegetarianism of the Pythagoreans and others.

_Nicander_ of Colophon, an Alexandrian didactic poet. The [Greek: theriaka] survives, is over 1,000 lines long, and deals with the bites of wild beasts.

_Plato._ The words are not actually found in Plato's extant works; Apuleius is probably slightly misquoting Timaeus 59_c_.