Vulgar words in The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura (Page 1)
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At last he returned home, and it was probably at this period of his career that he wrote his famous novel, the _Metamorphoses_ or _Golden Ass_.
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Above all the _Golden Ass_ has kept his name alive to our own day.
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The verve, the humour, and above all the welter of warmth and colour that characterize the _Golden Ass_ make us forgive the palpable degradation of the Latin language.
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The sacrifice is not so great in these works as it must necessarily be in any English translation of the more exotic and more brilliant-hued _Metamorphoses_, better known as _The Golden Ass_.
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But I beg you, Aemilianus, in future to abstain from reviling any one for their poverty, since you yourself used, after waiting for some seasonable shower to soften the ground, to expend three days in ploughing single-handed, with the aid of one wretched ass, that miserable farm at Zarath, which was all your father left you.
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Had Aristotle known this, Aristotle who records as a most remarkable phenomenon the fact that the fish known as the small sea-ass alone of all fishes has its diminutive heart placed in its stomach, he would assuredly have mentioned the fact.
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He may have been unable to abstain from the wine-cup[17] sufficiently long to keep sober against this moment; or it may be that Aemilianus took good care not to subject him to your severe and searching gaze, lest you should damn the brute with his close-shaven cheeks and his disgusting appearance by a mere glance at his face, when you saw a young man with his features stripped of the beard and hair that should adorn them, his eyes heavy with wine, his lids swollen, his broad[18] grin, his slobbering lips, his harsh voice, his trembling hands, his breath[19] reeking of the cook-shop.
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Much less will I believe that this dull blockhead, I will not say, hates sin, but recognizes it when he sees it.
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_Meletides_ (or more properly Melitides) was an Athenian of proverbial stupidity, whose name was synonymous for blockhead.