The only Latin novel to survive whole: Lucius, too curious about witchcraft, is turned into an ass and passed from owner to owner until the goddess Isis restores him. Inside it is the tale of Cupid and Psyche.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Golden Ass that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: William Adlington, 1566. Source: Gutenberg 1666.
The text here is William Adlington’s translation, 1566, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 1666, set unaltered in its Elizabethan spelling. Adlington’s summary heads each chapter.
This printing has no heading for the fifth book: the tale of Cupid and Psyche runs on from the fourth.
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