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William Adlington, Cupid and Psyche, 1903

Adlington 1903c
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Apuleius Opera 1588
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Philander 1749
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Voltaire 1762a
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Adlington 1903b
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Butler 1922
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Boccaccio 1511
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Minturno
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LockPsyche1
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Shadwell Psyche 1
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De la Fontaine, Les Amours de Psyche, 1814
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Beaumont, Psyche, 1702
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Urfey
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Mary Tighe, Psyche, 1812
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Christoph Wieland, Fragments of Psyche, 1
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William Morris, Earthly Paradise, 1
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William Morris, Zephyrus
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Mattison Morris 2
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Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche, 1885
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Laprade, Psyche, 1
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Edward Carpenter, Eros and Psyche, 1900
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Walter Pater, Marius, 1
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Falla, Psyche, 1
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Louys, Psyche, 1
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The 1566 English translation by William Adlington, used by Shakespeare, has been the most influential translation of the novel as a whole throughout the English-speaking world. After centuries of use, it is still in print today. This scholarly edition by Rev. R.J. Hughes, M.A., who “corrected the texts and added the Notes” (p. 100), uses it, too. His notes are keyed to the Latin, and are on grammar as well as content.

This is a bibliophile edition, targeted at the gentleman scholar: bilingual, Latin and English. It has markers in the Latin text (based on Valpy’s edition) to help find the corresponding line in Adlington’s translation. Hughes’ editorial note (p. 108-11) derives its information heavily from Apuleius’ own Apologia, Adlington’s preface to his original translation, and commentaries by Valpy and Beroaldo. Like Adlington, Hughes, too, seems to confuse Apuleius with Lucius (p. 108: “Apuleius acquired his knowledge of the Latin tongue by assiduous efforts; and is said to have learnt the language without the aid of a master. This fact, if true, together with the fact that he possessed in a marked degree the gift of originality, would account for the difference between his style of writing and that of the prominent writers of the age in which he lived.”). The first sentence is an echo of the prologue to Apuleius’ novel.

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