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The Golden Ass
was published in the 2nd century CE by
Apuleius.
It was translated from Latin in 1566 by
William Adlington.

This ebook was produced for
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by
Paul King,
and is based on a transcription produced in 2006 by
Donal O’Danachair, David Widger, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans from the
Internet Archive.

The cover page is adapted from
Fotis Sees Her Lover Lucius Transformed Into an Ass. Motif from Apeleius’ the Golden Ass,
a painting completed in 1809 by
Nicolai Abildgaard.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

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