English

Proper noun

Apuleius

1. An author in the Roman Empire, Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis.

Translations

See also

• Apuleius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Apuleius on Wikiquote.Wikiquote

Latin

Alternative forms

• Appulēius
• Āpul. abbreviation

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aː.puˈleː.i.us/, [aː.pʊˈɫeː.i.ʊs]

Proper noun

Āpulēius m ‎(genitive Āpulēiī or Āpulēī); second declension

1. A masculine nomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Apuleius Saturninus (138–100 BC), tribunus plebis in 103 and 100 BC
   2. Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (circa AD 124–170), a spirited and flowery – but sometimes bombastic – writer, whose principal work yet extant is called Metamorphoseon sive de Asino Aureo libri XI.
   3. (Pseudo-)Apuleius Platonicus (fl. AD 4th C.), pseudonymous author of a Herbarium popular throughout the Early and High Middle Ages

Declension

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: Apuleius
• ?French: Apulée
• ?Greek: Απουλήιος ‎(Apoulíios)
• ?Portuguese: Apuleio
• ?Spanish: Apuleyo

External links

• Apuleius (disambiguation) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Lucius Apuleius Saturninus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• (Pseudo-)Apuleius Platonicus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

Adjective

Āpulēius m ‎(feminine Āpulēia, neuter Āpulēium); first/second declension

1. of Apuleius
   1. (of a law or laws) proposed by the tribunus plebis L. Apuleius Saturninus

Declension

First/second declension.

References

• Appŭlēius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Apŭlēĭus (App-)”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 149/3.
• “Āpulēius” on page 156 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)