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Apulejus von Madaura und das römische Privatrecht. Von Fritz Norden. 196 pages, 8vo. Published by Teubner, 1912. 3 marks 50 pf.

H. E. Butler

The Classical Review / Volume 27 / Issue 08 / December 1913, pp 282 - 283 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00006284, Published online: 27 October 2009

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Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 138.251.14.35 on 10 Apr 2015 282 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW sensible, sober and convincing treat- should have been called for within two ment of this fascinating but perilous years of its publication in 1910. The subject. 's own account of the changes introduced have been, of neces- clausula is rightly taken as the proper sity, but slight; some of the more clue to the labyrinth, and M. Laurand's technical articles have been revised, four readers (unlike Prof. Zielinsky's) are modern illustrations have been substi- neither bewildered by a huge mass of tuted for older ones, the bibliographies statistics nor (if they know anything of have been brought up to date, and a few phonetics) shocked by impossible misprints and slips have been corrected; theories of the pronunciation of final the pagination remains the same. But and other syllables. Since the publica- we notice that at least four slight errors tion of Mr. Clark's Fontes Prosae Nu- to which attention was called in our merosae many additions have been made review of the first edition (C. R. xxv, to the bibliography. They are all re- pp. 260 ff.) still remain; and Professor corded on the opening pages of this Ridgeway is hardly to be congratulated brochure, which I would recommend on the tone of his reference (p. 34, last to anyone who thinks of taking up this line) to the most thorough book in the line of research. English language dealing with pre- W. M. LINDSAY. historic Italy. ERNEST E. GENNER. Jesus College, Oxford. Apulei Psyche et Cupido cura LUDOVICI C. PURSER. 8VO. Pp. 41. Pub- lished by Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, Ltd. (Riccardi pi von Madaura und das romische Privatrecht. Von FRITZ NORDEN. Press Books). 6s. net. 196 pages, 8vo. Published by Teub- THE Riccardi series of classical texts ner, 1912. 3 marks 50 pf. has been enriched by the addition of IN this painstaking book Herr Norden the Cupid and Psyche of , a has attempted to show the light thrown work peculiarly suited to an edition de on Roman law by the works of Apuleius. luxe. It is an exquisite little volume, To do this he takes various depart- for which no praise can be too high. ments of Roman law, and proceeds to If there be anything to regret, it is illustrate them by every possible pas- that Mr. Lee Warner has not thought sage in Apuleius that can be con- fit to print the whole of the Golden ceived to bear on them. The result Ass. The text is that of Dr. Purser, is a volume which suffers grievously already noticed in the Classical Review, from prolixity, but provides a sound and is printed continuously without and sensible commentary on legal division into books and chapters, a questions and phrases in the works of practice which, though it would be Apuleius, It will be useful to the regrettable in a text produced for the student of Apuleius to a far greater professional scholar, is eminently justi- extent than to the student of Roman fied in an edition of this kind owing law, and it is perhaps a pity that it to the added beauty which it gives to has not been cast more definitely into the page. the shape of a legal commentary on the H. E. BUTLER. works of the philosopher-rhetorician of University College, London. Madaura, on the lines of Abt's com- mentary on the magical points raised by the Apologia. There are not on A Companion to Latin Studies. Edited the whole many passages in Apuleius by Sir J. E. SANDYS, LittD., F.B.A. which are of any real importance for Second Edition. 141 illustrations and the student of Roman law. The most 2 maps. Pp. xxxv+ 891. Cambridge: interesting passages are perhaps two University Press, 1913. 18s. net. passages in the Apologia, one of them IT is a testimony to the usefulness of till recently the only evidence for the the Companion that a second edition existence of birth-registers previous to THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 283 the reign of Marcus Aurelius, now THE De Motu Animalium (which many supplemented by the discovery of a have regarded as spurious) deals with diptychon at Cairo (148 A.D.), the other the essential nature of animal movement. informing us that the praefectus urbis The De Incessu treats of the various was assisted in his court by a consilium kinds of locomotion in animals and the consularium. The position of Pudens, different ways in which it is carried out, Apuleius' young stepson, as Apuleius' that is to say, why ' some animals fly, accuser in the trial, is also interesting. some swim, some walk, and others move He was represented by his uncle, in various ways.' The latter work, there- Sicinius Aemilianus, on the ground of fore, is an anatomical and physiological his youth. Here Herr Norden makes treatise, whereas the De Motu deals, in a serious error in his interpretation. one of its aspects, with a fundamental He asserts that Sicinius Aemilianus problem of Biology, namely, the nature became the tutor of the impubes Pudens of living as contrasted with lifeless after the death of Pontianus, and that things. Thus we meet with the com- it was in virtue of his capacity as tutor parison (so often made since) between that he appeared for him in the trial. the movements of animals and those of He forgets, however, that Pudens was automata, and it is noteworthy that not impubes. There is some doubt as appears to have reached a to when Pudens took the toga uirilis, generalisation which in modern Biology for Apuleius is not consistent on this has found expression in the statement point. But whether Pudens was given that ' Life is adjustment.' ' In the auto- the toga uirilis before the marriage maton and the toy waggon,' he says, of Apuleius and Pudentilla (cf. cc. j$ ' there is no change of quality [but] in ad fin. and 88), or, later, as is implied in an animal the same part has the power c. 98, there can be no doubt that he of becoming now larger and now smaller, was no longer a minor at the time of and changing its form, as the parts in- the trial. We have, therefore, a case crease by warmth and again expand by of cur a, not of tutela. Again, to take a cold by and change their quality.' The very different question, Herr Norden translator interprets this sentence to seems to me to be at fault in his treat- mean that the body's motions are ment of the curious passage dealing produced ' physiologically' and not with Pontianus' legacy of linen to his ' mechanically,' but this attempted ex- discreditable wife, ut intellegeratur iratus planation seems to us to mean less than potius aestimasse earn quam oblitus prae- Aristotle's original statement. teriisse. Herr Norden would insert Aristotle distinguished three kinds of extraneam before aestimasse. This seems movements in animals: firstly, voluntary to weaken the force of the passage. movements, which included locomotion Aestimasse means that Pontianus and the ordinary movements of the 'formed an estimate of her,' and the body; secondly, non-voluntary, in which context shows clearly enough that this were included sleep, waking and respira- means ' estimated her at her right tion; and thirdly, involuntary move- value.' ments, by which were meant those of The book is, however, a useful piece the heart and of the 'generative organ.' of work, for which students of Apuleius, The heart was regarded as the efficient at any rate, have reason to be grateful. cause of movement, the seat of the H. E. BUTLER. senses and the organ of the soul which University College, London. directed all movement, being a final cause. The heart and the generative organ were apparently held to be in a THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE. sense separate vital organism s, the former De Motu Animalium; De Incessu Ani- for the reason given, and the latter be- malium. By A. S. L. FARQUHARSON. cause it gave rise to seminal potency. Translated into English under the Hence these two organs were supposed editorship of S. A. Smith and W. D. to possess an unique kind of movement. Ross. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Aristotle's views on animal locomotion igi3. 2S. net. as set forth in the De Incessu are obscure