This is a list of the works we cite often in the notes, with the abbreviations we use. See also our collection of Scholarly Perspectives. For fuller bibliographies see the editions of Hunink (vol. 1 pp. 113-132), Jones (pp. xxvii-xxxii), and Martos (pp. xlvi-cii).
Abt: Abt, Adam. 1908. Die Apologie des Apuleius von Madaura und die antike Zauberei. Giessen: Alfred Toepelmann. Full text at the Internet Archive.
AG: Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, edited by J.B. Greenough, G.L. Kitteredge, A.A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D’Ooge. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1903. DCC edition edited by Meagan Ayer.
B/O: Butler, H.E. and A.S. Owen. 1914. Apulei apologia sive pro se de magia liber. Oxford: Clarendon Press. The seminal commentary on the Latin text. Full text at the Internet Archive.
Berger: Berger, A. 1953. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Volume 43, Part 2. Full text at the Internet Archive.
Costantini: Costantini, L. 2019. Magic in Apuleius’ Apologia: Understanding the Charges and the Forensic Strategies in Apuleius’ Speech. Berlin, De Gruyter.
Courtney FLP: Courtney, E. The Fragmentary Latin Poets, edited with commentary by Edward Courtney. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
DMLBS: Latham, R.E., D.R. Howlett, and R. K. Ashdowne. 1975-2013. The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources. London: The British Academy. Available at Logeion.
Helm: Helm, R. 1972, orig. 1912. Apulei Platonici Madaurensis opera quae supersunt. Vol. II, fasc. 1. Pro se de magia liber (Apologia). Leipzig: Teubner. Latin text with apparatus criticus. Helm’s Latin text, without apparatus, is available on Perseus (1912 ed.) and Packard Humanities Institute (1959 ed.). Limited access to the 1955 edition at the Internet Archive.
Hunink: Hunink, V. 1997. Apuleius of Madauros, Pro se de magia. A New Edition with Commentary. Amsterdam: Gieben. Vol. 1: Text; vol. 2: Commentary. Excellent and very full commentary on all aspects of the speech. Hunink’s Latin text is freely available at The Latin Library.
Jones: Jones, C.P. 2017. Apuleius: Apologia, Florida, De Deo Socratis. Harvard University Press. The Loeb edition, including an introduction and an English translation.
OLD: Glare, P.G.W. et al. 2012 The Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed. Oxford, Clarendon.
LS: Lewis, C.T. and C. Short. 1879. A Latin Dictionary. Oxford, Clarendon Press. Freely available at Logeion.
Martos: Martos, J. 2015. Apuleyo de Madauros, Apología o discurso sobre la magia en defensa propria; Floridas; Prólogo de El dios de Sócrates. Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
O’Donnell et al.: Apuleius, Apology. Website with Latin text, translation, and essays, created by a seminar conducted by J.J. O’Donnell in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania. https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/apuleius/
TLL: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. 1900--. De Gruyter. Open Access version at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.