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The Most Pleasant & Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid & Psyche by Apuleius. Translated by William Adlington. Introductory Note by W. H. D. Rouse Illustrations by Dorothy Mullock.
Cupid and Psyche is a charming story of star crossed lovers who must overcome many trials, and the world's most dangerous mother-in-law, before they are happily married.
"My dear son, punish that contumacious beauty; give your mother a revenge as sweet as her injuries are great; infuse into the bosom of that haughty girl a passion for some low, mean, unworthy being, so that she may reap a mortification as great as her present exultation and triumph."
Lucius Apuleius (123-170 AD), was a Roman poet, philosopher and orator. Cupid and Psyche is an excerpt from a much larger work, Metamorphoses, an eleven volume work often called The Golden Ass.
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