Apuleius

From Latin Āpulēius.

• IPA^(key): /ˌæpjuˈli.əs/

Apuleius

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

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• Apulējus
• Appulēius
• Āpul. (abbreviation)

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aː.pʊˈɫeː.jʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.puˈlɛː.jus]

Āpulēius m sg (genitive Āpulēiī or Āpulēī); second declension

1. A masculine nomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Appuleius 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

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

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

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

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

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