Editing Apuleius (section)

=== Other ===
His other works are:
* ''Florida''. A compilation of twenty-three extracts from his various speeches and lectures.
* ''De Platone et dogmate eius (On Plato and His Doctrine)''. An outline in two books of [[Plato]]'s physics and ethics, preceded by a life of Plato
* ''{{visible anchor|De Deo Socratis}} (On the God of Socrates)''. A work on the existence and nature of [[Daemon (classical mythology)|daemons]], the intermediaries between gods and humans. This treatise was attacked by [[Augustine of Hippo]] in ''[[The City of God]]'' (Books VIII to X), while [[Lactantius]] reserved it for short-lived creatures.<ref>{{Cite journal|language=it|author=Moreschini, Claudio ([[Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa]])|date=1972|title=La Polemica Di Agostino Contro La Demonologia Di Apuleio|journal=Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia|volume=2|issue=2|pages=583–596|access-date=2025-04-09|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24301469}} (related [https://journals.sns.it/index.php/annalilettere/article/view/2185 bibliographic record])</ref><ref>Augustine played a decisive role in the transmission of Apuleius' texts up to the present day. Cfr. {{Cite book |author=Carandino, Martina |title=Apuleio e Agostino: tra ricezione e demonologia |access-date=2025-04-09 |language=it |publisher=[[Academia.edu]] |url=https://www.academia.edu/31025358/Apuleio_e_Agostino_tra_ricezione_e_demonologia}}</ref> ''De Deo Socratis'' contains a passage comparing gods and kings which is the first recorded occurrence of the proverb "'''familiarity breeds contempt'''":<ref>{{citation |page=149 |title=Apuleius |first=S. J. |last=Harrison |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-19-927138-2}}</ref>{{Blockquote|''parit enim conversatio contemptum, raritas conciliat admirationem''<br />(familiarity breeds contempt, rarity brings admiration)|sign=|source=}}
* ''On the Universe''. This Latin translation of [[Pseudo-Aristotle]]'s work ''[[De Mundo]]'' is probably by Apuleius.

Apuleius wrote many other works which have not survived. He wrote works of [[poetry]] and [[fiction]], as well as technical treatises on [[politics]], [[dendrology]], [[agriculture]], [[medicine]], [[natural history]], [[astronomy]], [[music]], and [[arithmetic]], and he translated Plato's ''[[Phaedo]]''.{{sfn|Walsh|1999|pp=xiv–xv}}