The Golden Asse

Apuleius · c. 160 CE (composition of the Metamorphoses/The Golden Ass) primary

passage 112 of 156 · (90/126)

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in brief

The cook plans to kill the ass to avoid punishment, and repeats the earlier situation where the wife urges him to disguise the ass as buck meat for the household master.

Then the Cooke hearing the counsell of his wife, was well pleased to slay me to save himselfe: and so he went to the whetstone, to sharpe his tooles accordingly.

THE NINTH BOOKE

THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER

How Apuleius saved himselfe from the Cooke, breaking his halter, and of other things that happened.

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topics: conquest, plunder, and captives · marriage and betrothal

The Golden Asse · Apuleius · 160–180