Excerpt from Cupid and Psyche: A Mythological Tale, From the "Golden Ass" Of Apuleius; From the Second Anonymous London Edition of 1800, in Which Many Omissions Are Supplied; Together With the Life of Apuleius, and Some Notice of the Style of the Author A P U L E I II 3, (lu 0 I U s, ) a Platonic Philosopher, was born of a respectable family, at Madaura, in Africa, and lived in the second century, under the Antonines. He prosecuted his studies at Carthage, Athens, and Rome; at which latter place, he acquired a knowledge of the Latin tongue, without a master and of these studies he gives the following curious account: Our first cup of knowledge, which we receive from the hand of the teacher of letters, removes entire ignorance; the second furnishes us with the learning of the grammarian; the third arms us with the eloquence of the rhetorician, and as much as this is drunk by most persons: but in Athens I drank other cups from the deceitful fountain of poetry, - from the clear stream of geometry, - from the sweet waters of music, - from the rough current of dialectics, - and from the nectareous, but inexhaust ible deep of universal philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.