
Episode CLXXVI – The Apology of Apuleius
Emperors of Rome
Buying Fish Isn't for Magic, It's for the Land
The charges against apulaeus include writing rude poems, attempting to purchase a certain kind of fish and sending an enslaved boy into a trance using magical chance. Next one is performing a sacrifice at night, owning a mirror, commissioning an ugly statue. And marrying a rich woman despite being a poor foreigner. Well, helus takes all the blame. Ahart doesn't. In the main, he saysyes, everyone does this kind of thing, buying fish that has never been associated with magic? He takes that apart by saying, who associates magic with the sea and stuff that happens under the sea? It's much more about the land. You know, what you can get on land?
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