Excerpt from The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, Vol. 1 of 2: Reprinted From the Scarce Edition of 1709, Revised and CorrectedBut then I cannot put Lucian absolutely into. That illustrious class, he lived in an age when the taste of the people was as loose and de hanched as their principles and manners, and Lucian, with-all his wit, could not escape the infection of the times, as is plain from his de fence of dancing, in which, though he gives a great many just praises to that art, then in its perfection, yet when he prefers it even to a tragedy, he pays but a slender deference to sense.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.