"Floridity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... place for a disquisition upon African Latin. It is sufficient here to say that the two main features of the style of Apuleius are its archaism and its extreme floridity. It has been asserted that this strange style is of purely African growth,[4] and that it owes much of its oriental wealth of colour to the Semitic element that must still have formed so large a proportion of the population ...
— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius |
