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Eleven Notes on the Text of Apuleius' Metamorphoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ken Dowden
Ken Dowden
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These notes, which are conservative more often than they are revolutionary, have originated from some reviews which I have recently written of books on Apuleius. I have found that the only way to preserve any consistency in the format is to open each note by citing the text I should prefer and then following that with a Latin apparatus criticus. The aim of the notes is generally only to shed light on the individual passages, to offer conversion or conviction, but some notes serve the rather larger purpose of bolstering a general view of the editors of Apuleius against some modern misconceptions.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , May 1980, pp. 218 - 226
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1980

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References

1 Of Augello, G., Studi Apuleiani (Palermo, 1977)Google Scholar, and JrHijmans, B. L.. and others, Apuleius: Metamorphoses IV. 1–2 (Groningen, 1977Google Scholar), both in CR 29 (1979).Google Scholar

2 Orthodoxy: the editions of Helm (Florida), p. xxixGoogle Scholar, Giarratano, , p. xviiGoogle Scholar and Frassinetti, , pp. xlix–1Google Scholar, Robertson (Tome 1 p. xlii); Schlam, C. C., CW 64 (1971), 286Google Scholar. Modern misconceptions: see the reviews cited in n. 1 and Griffiths, J.Gwyn, The Isis Book, p. 66.Google Scholar

3 The exception is the photograph of a folio of F which is frontispiece to the Groningen Met. IV. 1–27, which I have used for 4.22.

4 Statements concerning the frequency with which Apuleius uses certain words and the like derive from the Oldfather, Canter and Perry, Index Apuleianus.

5 Callebat, , Sermo Cotidianus, p. 361, strangely takes the verb as aorist.Google Scholar

6 Pečirka, J. in Finley, M. I. (ed.), problemes de la terre en Grèce ancienne (Paris, 1980), pp. 123–9, an illuminating reference I owe to Dr. N. R. E. Fisher.Google Scholar

7 From ThLL it can be seen that aula displays some Greek forms and that the ancients felt that the Greek and Roman words mean different things, the Latin aula being restricted to ‘palace’. However, Apuleius' spelling of other Greek words (see Callebat, , pp. 60–8) does not encourage aideGoogle Scholar

8 Ac does occur before vowels, if rarely: ThLL s.v. atque.

9 Meaning of vice: Callebat, p. 232.

10 Gentem immanent Lapitbum, Verg. A. 7.304–5.

11 Ovid, , Met. 2.633, 12.406.Google Scholar

12 Note also the lacuna at 4.22 (91.12) above, somewhat obscured in Helm's edition.

13 Robertson claims that salt and es are not even joined.

14 Excessively used even where theoretically appropriate, e.g. 9.39 (233.18) nibilo minus ominosus Frassinetti.

15 The same situation as at 6.4 (131.19–20).

16 The et after minutatim can be ruled out, as using it to connect two verbs would leave minutatim at the end of a clause – and the wrong one at that.

17 Found also at 11.23 (284.32).

18 p. 187.

19 PI. Rud. 213, Apul. Met. 5.21 (119. 12), Livy 4.57.3.

20 CJ 64 (1968) 267.Google Scholar

21 Summers, W. C., Seneca, Select Letters, p. lv.Google Scholar

22 Denied by Robertson, but restated by Augello after inspection.

23 ap. Augello, p. 115 n. 10.

24 Helm cites 5.11 (112.16) and 7.27 (175.24).

25 7.12 (163.17) parati, 4.22(91.12) (et) enim.Google Scholar

26 Cf. 6.11 (136.12) clausus cohercebatur, Bernhard, , Der Stil des Apuleius, p. 46. Hijmans et al., p. 27.Google Scholar

27 Woodcock, , A New Latin Syntax, pp. 18–19Google Scholar; Médan, , La Latinité d'Apulée, p. 76Google Scholar, Callebat, , p. 305. For the sort of usage I am postulating, cf. Hor. Odes 1.26. 1–3, Verg. A. 9.362, ThLL s.v. do col. 1688.Google Scholar

28 Att. VI.7.2.

29 This is one to add to the ‘seul exemple’ of the ellipse of fio in Callebat 117; Callebat does not discuss any of these cases, in conformity with Bernhard 159 ‘Die Ellipse anderer als der gennanten Verba, der verba dicendi und der Kopula esse, finden sich bei Apulejus nicht’.

30 Cf. Cic. Att. IV.8a.2 viri boni nusquam, where Shackleton Bailey understands apparuerunt. In the preparation of this article, I have been much aided by my colleague Mr. D. E. Hill and by the reader.