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Lucius Apuleius
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Lucius Apuleius Platonicus bol rímsky spisovateľ berberského pôvodu – sám sa označuje ako spola Numid a spola Gétul -, známy predovšetkým vďaka svojmu románu Metamorphoses, tiež označovaného ako Aureus Asinus . Αpuleiov praenomen nie je doložený, ale býva stotožňovaný s menom hlavného hrdinu jeho románu, Luciom.
Citáty Lucius Apuleius
„Behold me, Lucius; moved by thy prayers, I appear to thee; I, who am Nature, the parent of all things, the mistress of all the elements, the primordial offspring of time, the supreme among Divinities, the queen of departed spirits, the first of the celestials, and the uniform manifestation of the Gods and Goddesses; who govern by my nod the luminous heights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the ocean, and the anguished silent realms of the shades below: whose one sole divinity the whole orb of the earth venerates under a manifold form, with different rites, and under a variety of appellations.“
— Apuleius, kniha The Golden Ass
Bk. 11, ch. 5; p. 226.
Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass)
Originál: (la) En adsum tuis commota, Luci, precibus, rerum naturae parens, elementorum omnium domina, saeculorum progenies initialis, summa numinum, regina manium, prima caelitum, deorum dearumque facies uniformis, quae caeli luminosa culmina, maris salubria flamina, inferum deplorata silentia nutibus meis dispenso: cuius numen unicum multiformi specie, ritu vario, nomine multiiugo totus veneratus orbis.
„But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.“
— Apuleius, kniha Apologia
Originál: (la) Sanus est, qui scit quid sit insania, quippe insania scire se non potest, non magis quam caecitas se videre.
„It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.“
— Apuleius, kniha Apologia
Apologia; seu, Pro Se de Magia (Apologia; or, A Discourse on Magic), ch. 21; p. 268.
Originál: (la) Ad vivendum velut ad natandum is melior qui onere liberior.
„And thus He will bring back His world to its former aspect, so that the Cosmos will once more be deemed worthy of worship and wondering reverence, and God, the maker and restorer of the mighty fabric, will be adored by the men of that day with unceasing hymns of praise and blessing.“
— Apuleius
The Prophecy of Hermes Trismegistus
„No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven and of the Gods of heaven, will be heard or believed.“
— Apuleius
The Prophecy of Hermes Trismegistus
„And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and of worship. And so religion, the greatest of all blessings, for there is nothing, nor has been, nor ever shall be, that can be deemed a greater boon, will be threatened with destruction; men will think it a burden, and will come to scorn it.“
— Apuleius
The Prophecy of Hermes Trismegistus
