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THE GOLDEN ASS, OR METAMORPHOSES

Appendix

The Onos and The Golden Ass

Onos   The Golden Ass
1-3 Arrival at Hypata. Hospitably received/ bored and starved by Hipparchus/Milo 1.2, 21-4, 26
4 In quest of witchcraft. Warned by Abroea/Byrrhena against Hipparchus' wife/Pamphile 2.1-3, 5
5-10 Intrigue with Palaestra/Photis 2.6-7, 10, 15-17
11-15 Metamorphosis 3.19-26
16-26 With the robbers 3.28-4.5, 7-8, 22-3, 6.25-32
26-7 The robbers captured by soldiers/drugged and slaughtered. Lucius well treated by the captive girl/Charite 7.12-14
27-8 At pasture and in the mill 7.14-16
29-33 The abominable boy. Threat of castration 7.17-23
34 Death of the captive girl/Charite and her husband. The establishment decamps 8.1, 15
35-41 Arrival at Beroea/;a certain large and famous city'. Sold to Philebus. With the
priests
8.23-9.4, 8-10
42 With the baker 9.10-11
43-5 With the gardener 9.32, 39-42
46-7 With the cooks 10.13-16
48-52 With Menecles of Thessalonica/Thiasus of Corinth 10.16-23
53-5 The games. Lucius regains his shape/escapes 10.34-5

The stories, episodes and significant amplifications which in all probability were not in Met. and were added by Apuleius are then:

Aristomenes' Story 1.3-20
The trampling of the fish 1.25
Byrrhena's house 2.4
On hair 2.8-9
Diophanes 2.12-14
Thelyphron's Story 2.18-30
Encounter with the 'robbers'; the spoof trial; Photis' explanation 2.31-3.18
Thwarted attempt to eat roses; first beating 3.27
The robbers' lair 4.6
First robber's story 4.8
Second robber's Story 4.9-21
Charite's story 4.24-7
Cupid and Psyche 4.28-6.24
Third robber's story 7.I-3
Tlepolemus' story 7.4-12
Death of abominable boy 7.24-8
Story of Charite, Tlepolemus and Thrasyllus 8.1-14
Adventures on the road
Inserted story (i): the delinquent slave
Inserted story (ii): the lover and the jar
8.15-22
8.22
9.5-7
Lucius meditates on his situation
Inserted story (iii): the baker's wife
Inserted story (iv): Barbarus' wife
Inserted story (v): the fuller's 'wife
Inserted story (vi): the downfall of a house
Inserted story (vii): the wicked stepmother
Inserted story (viii): the condemned woman
9.12-13
9.14-31
9.16-21
9.24-5
9.33-8
10.2-12
10.23-8
The games. Pyrrhic dance; the Judgement of Paris 10.29-34
Rescue by Isis and Lucius' subsequent fortunes 10.36 11.30

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