The golden ass
Apuleius
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This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book: INDEX Achaea, province of, 505 Acheron, 551 Act aeon, 55 Actinm, 309 Adlington, life, viii; English style, viii, ix, xviii; marginal notes, examples of, 412, 444, 492, 511, 51! Adonis, 89, 887 Aedile (clerk of the market), office of, 42 Aegean Sea, 537 Aegina, birthplace of Aristomenes the commercial traveller, 9 Aesculapius, god of medicine, attri- butes, 9 Aetolia, 9; Aristomenes goes to live there, 35 Ajax, madness of, 127; judged in- ferior to Ulysses, 535 Alcimus, one of the leaders of the robbers: how he met his end, 161 !'/. Althea, mother of Meleager, 84i Ambrosia, 282 Antipodes, inhabitants of, 17 Ants, help Psyche to perform her seemingly impossible task of sifting the various kinds of grain, 268; instruments of tor- ture and death, 381 Anubis, the dog-headed god, 557 Apollo, 541; a Greek deity of Ionia, 193; oracle at Miletus, 193, 225; delivers his oracnlar reply in Latin, 195; sings at wedding of Cupid and Psyche, 485 Apollonins, a physician, 403 Apuleius, life, v seq,, xx teq., xxiii; philosophical and reli- gious opinions, vi; works, vi, xx; Latin style, viii, xv Arabian nard, 63; perfumes, 545 Arcadia, birth-place of Mercury, 259; kingdom of Phlnens, 499 Areopagus, 485 Arete, wife of Barbaras, beloved by Philesitherus, 426 Argos, worship orf Juno at, 255 Argus, 85 Aria, 546 Arignotus, brother of the sooth- sayer Dlophanes, 71 Arion, rescued from drowning by a dolphin, 293 Aristides, writer of Milesian Tales, vii Aristomenes, a commercial travel- ler, his story, 9 seq,, 49 Asitiius Marcellus, a priest in the College of the Pastophori, 689 Ass, Lucius transformed in...

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THE GOLDEN ASSE
Translated by William Adlington
First published 1566 This version as reprinted from the edition of 1639. The original spelling, capitalisation and punctuation have been retained.
Dedication
The Life of Lucius Apuleius Briefly Described
The Preface of the Author To His Sonne, Faustinus
And unto the Readers of this Book
THE FIRST BOOKE
THE FIRST CHAPTER
THE SECOND CHAPTER
THE THIRD CHAPTER
THE FOURTH CHAPTER
THE FIFTH CHAPTER
THE SIXTH CHAPTER
THE SEVENTH CHAPTER
THE SECOND BOOKE
THE EIGHTH CHAPTER
THE NINTH CHAPTER
THE TENTH CHAPTER
THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER
THE THIRD BOOKE
THE TWELFTH CHAPTER
THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER
THE FOURTEENTH CHAPTER
THE FIFTEENTH CHAPTER
THE SIXTEENTH CHAPTER
THE SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER
THE FOURTH BOOKE
THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER
THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER
THE TWENTIETH CHAPTER
THE TWENTY-FIRST CHAPTER
THE MARRIAGE OF CUPID AND PSYCHES
THE TWENTY-SECOND CHAPTER
THE SIXTH BOOKE
THE TWENTY-THIRD CHAPTER
THE SEVENTH BOOKE
THE TWENTY-FOURTH CHAPTER
THE TWENTY-FIFTH CHAPTER
THE TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTER
How all the Theeves were brought asleepe by their new companion.
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER
THE TWENTY-NINTH CHAPTER
How Apuleius was accused of Lechery by the boy.
THE THIRTIETH CHAPTER
THE THIRTY-FIRST CHAPTER
THE EIGHTH BOOKE
THE THIRTY-SECOND CHAPTER
THE THIRTY-THIRD CHAPTER
THE THIRTY-FOURTH CHAPTER
THE THIRTY-FIFTH CHAPTER
THE THIRTY-SIXTH CHAPTER
THE NINTH BOOKE
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER
THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER
THE THIRTY-NINTH CHAPTER
THE FORTIETH CHAPTER
THE FORTY-FIRST CHAPTER
THE FORTY-SECOND CHAPTER
THE FORTY-THIRD CHAPTER
THE TENTH BOOKE
THE FORTY-FOURTH CHAPTER
THE FORTY-FIFTH CHAPTER
THE FORTY-SIXTH CHAPTER
THE ELEVENTH BOOKE
THE FORTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER
THE FORTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER
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