Does 'Who can, for instance, blame a youth with but a mildly evil disposition from guffawing when he reads in Pater's Marius The Epicurean (Chapter V) a reference to Apuleius' The Golden Ass noting that  all through the book, there is an unmistakably real feeling for asses ... ' serve to directly refute the premise presented in 'Pater wrote Marius the Epicurean.'
Who can, for instance, blame a youth with but a mildly evil disposition from guffawing when he reads in Pater's Marius The Epicurean (Chapter V) a reference to Apuleius' The Golden Ass noting that  all through the book, there is an unmistakably real feeling for asses ... ###Pater wrote Marius the Epicurean.