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So life was a little trying, a little perplexing; but it afforded wide scope for curiosity, and Apuleius, an African, brought up in Athens, and living in Rome, was endlessly curious. In his attraction to horrors, to bloodshed, and the shudder of grisly phantoms there was, perhaps, something of the man of peace.
The door was open, but, as he entered, his horse, who was fastened with a sliding cord, kicked wildly at him, and caught him right on the shoulder. But before the horse could deal another blow Apuleius had sprung hastily on one side, and had hidden himself in a dark corner, where he slept soundly.
As I write these lines an antique story rises up in my mind, a recollection of one of my lost works or an instantaneous reading of Apuleius into A Mummers Wife which? In default of a screen, a gown and a red petticoat had been thrown over a clothes-horse, and these shaded the glare of the lamp from the eyes of the sick man.
The next thing is that half the phrases are, in the ordinary sense of the word, barely Latin. Apuleius has all the daring, though not the genius, of Virgil himself in inventing new Latin or using old Latin in new senses.
How Apuleius supped with Byrrhena, and what a strange tale Bellephoron told at the table. It fortuned on a day, that Byrrhena desired me earnestly to suppe with her; and shee would in no wise take any excusation.
Long before this, Musonius Rufus, an aristocratic Stoic, had admitted slaves to his lectures, and at the risk of his life had preached peace to the armies of Vitellius and Vespasian. And this wide-spread movement had, as we have seen, been continued by men like Dio, and later still by Apuleius. But by thus gaining in width it lost greatly in depth.
In the story of Psyche that Apuleius inserted at the end of the second century A.D., in the romance of Metamorphoses, we read that Venus imposed on Psyche, among other trials, that of sorting out and placing in separate jars the grains of wheat, oats, millet and poppy pease, lentils and lima beans which she had mixed together.
A knock at the door was heard, and in a few moments there entered a visitor, with the easy familiarity of intimate acquaintance, a young man, but with none of the bloom of youth. His hair, fine as a woman's, was thin and scanty, but it fell low over the forehead, and concealed that noblest of our human features. "A gentleman," says Apuleius, "ought to wear his whole mind on his forehead."
The beginnings of Christian literature in Minucius Felix, and of mediaeval literature in Apuleius and the author of the Pervigilium Veneris, rise in an age scanty in the amount and below mediocrity in the substance of its production. Little is known of the birth and parentage of Tacitus beyond the mere fact that he was a Roman of good family.
That very evening, Hesperus had scarcely risen from his bed when Fotis knocked at the door of the house. 'Come hither, and quickly, she said; and without stopping to question her Apuleius hastened by her side to the dwelling of the witch Pamphile. Entering softly, they crept along a dark passage, where they could peep through a crack in the wall and see Pamphile at work.
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