9780217891950

The Golden Ass

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Paperback|9780217891950


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX Achaea, province of, 505 Acheron, 551 Actaeon, 66 Actium, 309 Adlington, life, viii; English style, viii, ix, xviii; marginal notes, examples of, 412, 444, 492, 511, 512 Adonis, 89, 887 Aedile (clerk of the market), office of, 42 Aegean Sea, 537 Aegina, birthplace of Aristomenes the commercial traveller, 9 Aesculapius, god of medicine, attri- butes, 9 Aetolia, 9; Aristomenes goes to live there, 35 Ajax, madness of, 127; judged in- ferior to Ulysses, 535 Alcimus, one of the leaders of the robbers: how he met his end, 161 seq. Althea, mother of Meleager, 343 Ambrosia, 282, Antipodes, inhabitants of, 17 Ants, help p'syche to perform her seemingly impossible task of sifting the various kinds of grain, 263; instruments of tor- ture and death, 381 Amibis, the dog-headed god, 557 Apollo, 541: a Greek deity of Ionia, 193; oracle at Miletus, 193, 225; delivers his oracular reply in Latin, 195; sings at wedding of Cupid and Psyche, 985 Apollonius, a physician, 40S Apuleius, life, v seq., xx leq xxtii; philosophical and reli- gious opinions, vi; works, vi, xx; Latin style, viii, xv Arabian nard, 63; perfumes, 545 Arcadia, birth-place of Mercury. 259; kingdom of Phineus, 499 Areopagus, 485 Arete, wife of Barbaras, beloved by Philesitherus, 425 Argos, worship of Juno at, 255 Argus, 85 Aria, 546 Arignotus, brother of the sooth- sayer Diophanes, 71 Arion, rescued from drowning by a dolphin, 293 Aristides, writer of Milesian Tales, vii Aristomeues, a commercial travel- ler, his story, 9 seq., 49 Asinius Marcellus, a priest in the College of the Pastophori, 689 Ass, Lucius transformed into, 137; ...

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9780217891950

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0217891950

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0.38 Pounds

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9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In

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110 pages

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2009-08-01



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