The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura

by Apuleius

Anaximander, an Ionian philosopher, born 610 b.c.

Epimenides. See [note on Apologia, chap. 27].

Creophylus, an early epic poet, reputed author of the 'Capture of Oechalia', which he was said to have received from Homer as the dowry of the latter's daughter.

Leodamas. Nothing is known of this Leodamas. Apuleius may have made a slip and written Leodamas for Hermodamas, who is mentioned by Diog. Laert. viii. 2, as the descendant of Creophylus.

[Chapter 16.] Philemon was a writer of the 'new', not the 'middle' comedy.

'farewell' and 'applaud'. Cp. the well-known epitaph:—'iam mea peracta, mox vestra agetur fabula: valete et plaudite.'

Aemilianus Strabo was consul suffectus in 156 a.d. See Prosopographia imp. Rom. part 3. nr. 674, p. 275.

while breath still, &c., from Vergil, Aeneid iv. 336.

priesthood of the province of Africa. See [Introduction], [p. 12].

[Chapter 17.] Scipio Orfitus, proconsul of Africa, 163, 4 a.d. See Prosopographia imp. Rom. part 1, nr. 1184, p. 464.