[1336] Madaura was in the Numidian part of the Province, near the Gaetulian border. See the Apologia 24. Oea, referred to below, was in the eastern strip, on the coast.
[1337] Juvenal VII 148-9 nutricula causidicorum Africa.
[1338] F Norden Apuleius von Madaura und das Römische Privatrecht (Teubner 1912).
[1339] Metamorphoses VIII 24. See Norden’s remarks pp 83-4.
[1340] See for instance Metam IV 9, VI 31, VII 4, 9.
[1341] Metam IX 39-42.
[1342] It seems certain that the convenience of humble rustics was little regarded by the upper classes. Even Marcus Aurelius (in Fronto p 35 Naber) confesses to the reckless scattering of a flock of sheep and to having been taken for a mounted brigand.
[1343] Metam IX 35-8. This is a case of periculum mortis ab hominis potentis crudelitate aut odio, referred to Digest XXXIX 6 § 3 [Paulus] as a risk like that of war or brigandage.
[1344] cuncta facile faciens in civitate.
[1345] Norden pp 161-3.