The word scilicet marks the crowd's opinion as a conjecture, (35) and often the word marks a false conjecture and calls attention to an irony, as in the scene with the innkeeper and Aristomenes quoted above (1.

The Apologia as a 'Courtroom Drama' receives special attention in Chapter 4 and the Metamorphoses comes under scrutiny in the next seven chapters, covering the novel's prologue, the Aristomenes story, Lucius as a comic player in a theatrical setting, the Risus festival, Cupid and Psyche as 'A Divine Comedy,' Charite's episodically expressed story, the adultery tales of Book 10 and Isis, Lucius's saviour in Book 11 as Dea ex Machina.

Jones 1918) Such is his penchant for archaisms that Pausanias extends the style to his description of historical events, as in the Aristomenes episode (Paus.