The Short Stories of Apuleius Author:Apuleius General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Allyn and Bacon Subjects: Fiction / Classics History / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the ori... more »ginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TALE OP AEISTOMENES THE COMMEECIAL TEAVELEE Sed ut prius noritis cuiatis sim ; Aegiensis ; audite et quo quaestu me teneam : melle vel caseo et huiusce modi cauponarum mercibus per Thessaliam, Aetoliam, Boeotiam ultro citro discurrens. Comperto itaque Hypatae, quae civitas cunctae Thessaliae antepollet, caseum recens et sciti 5 saporis admodum commodo pretio distrahi, festinus ad- cucurri id omnc praestinaturus. Sed, ut fieri adsolet, sinistro pede profectum me spes compendii frustrata est ; omne enim pridie Lupus negotiator magnarius coemerat. Ergo igitur inefficaci celeritate fatiga-10 tus commodum vespera oriente ad balneas processeram ; ecce Socraten contubernalem meum conspicio. Humi sede- bat scissili palliastro semiamictus, paene alius lurore, ad miseram maciem deformatus, qualia solent fortunae de- cermina stipes in triviis erogare. Hune talem, quamquam 15 necessarium et summe cognitum, tamen dubia mente propius accessi. " Hem," inquam, " mi Socrates, quid istud ? quae facies ? quod flagitium ? At vero domi tuae iam defletus et con- clamatus es, liberis tuis tutores iuridici provincialis decreto 20 da ti, uxor persolutis inferialibus offlciis luctu et maerore diuturno deformata, diffletis paene ad extremam captivita- tem oculis suis, domus infortunium novarum nuptiarum gaudiis a suis sibi parentibus hilarare compellitur. At tu hic larvale simulacrum cum summo dedecore nostro vise...« less