Abstract

The most authoritative testimony for the text of Apuleius’ defence-speech known asApologiaorPro Se De Magiais a Cassinese MS indicated with thesiglumF (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 68.2), written under the abbotship of Desiderius (1058–1087) in a mature Beneventan script, which also preserves the text of theMetamorphosesand theFlorida. The text that F preserves is unsurprisingly not flawless, and in this note I argue for the presence of a corruption affectingautinApol. 47.1. For the sake of clarity, I provide the passage fromApol. 46.6 to 47.2 below.