[[76]] Apol. 72; Flor. 18.
[[77]] Flor. 20.
[[78]] Apol. 98. Cf. Passio Perpetuæ, c. 13, et cæpit Pirpetua Græce cum eis loqui, says Saturus; Perpetua uses occasional Greek words herself in recording her visions.
[[79]] Apol. 43. Cf. Plutarch cited on p. 101.
[[80]] Apol. 55, 56. Cf. Florida, 1, an ornamental passage on pious usage.
[[81]] Apol. 90. Many restorations have been attempted.
[[82]] e.g. Tertullian, de Anima, 57, Ostanes et Typhon et Dardanus et Damigeron et Nectabis et Berenice.
[[83]] Much of this material Apuleius has taken from the Timaeus, 40 D to 43 A.
[[84]] Cf. Lactantius, Instit. ii, de origine erroris, c. 5. Tertullian, ad Natt. ii, 2. Cicero, N.D. ii, 15, 39-44.
[[85]] de deo Socr. 3, 124. Cf. the account (quoted below) of what was experienced in initiation, which suggests some acquaintance with mystical trance—the confines of death and the sudden bright light look very like it.