LUCIUS APULEIUS African, an excellent follower of Plato his sect,
born in Madaura, a Countrey sometime inhabited by the Romans, and
under the jurisdiction of Syphax, scituate and lying on the borders
of Numidia and Getulia, whereby he calleth himself half a Numidian
and half a Getulian: and Sidonius named him the Platonian
Madaurence: his father called Theseus had passed all offices of
dignity in his countrey with much honour. His mother named Salvia
was of such excellent vertue, that she passed all the Dames of her
time, borne of an ancient house, and descended from the philosopher
Plutarch, and Sextus his nephew. His wife called Prudentila was
endowed with as much vertue and riches as any woman might be. Hee
himselfe was of an high and comely stature, gray eyed, his haire
yellow, and a beautiful personage. He flourished in Carthage in the
time of Iolianus Avitus and Cl. Maximus Proconsuls, where he spent
his youth in learning the liberall sciences, and much profited
under his masters there, whereby not without cause hee calleth
himself the Nource of Carthage, and the celestial Muse and
venerable mistresse of Africke. Soone after, at Athens (where in
times past the well of all doctrine flourished) he tasted many of
the cups of the muses, he learned the Poetry, Geometry, Musicke,
Logicke, and the universall knowledge of Philosophy, and studied
not in vaine the nine Muses, that is to say, the nine noble and
royal disciplines.
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