Abstract

In 2016 Justin Stover published an importanteditio princepsof a fragmentarily preserved text that was originally discovered by Raymond Klibansky in the first half of the twentieth century: a kind ofSummarium librorum Platoniswhich Klibansky took as a Latin translation of a lost Greek original, whereas Stover argues it was written by Apuleius, namely as the third book of hisDe Platone. The following notes deal primarily with details pertaining to the constitution of the text, but I will start with one remark on a detail of Stover's translation and close with a discussion concerning the alleged medieval reception of the so-called ‘New Apuleius’. Chapters, pages, Latin text, apparatus criticus entries, and translations are quoted according to Stover's edition; all bold highlights are mine, as are all translations from works other than the ‘New Apuleius’ if not indicated otherwise.