Golden Ass, The
Golden Ass, The:
see Apuleius, LuciusApuleius, Lucius, c.124–c.170, Latin writer, satirist, rhetorician, b. Hippo (now Bône, Algeria). His narrative romance The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses is the only Latin work of fiction to survive in entirety.
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Golden Ass, The
Lucius, transformed into donkey, observes foibles of mankind. [Rom. Lit.: Benét, 44]
See: Ass
Golden Ass, The
tale of Lucius and his asininity, with a number of bawdy episodes. [Rom. Lit.: Apuleius Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass in Magill I, 309]
See: Ribaldry
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