Canit enim Empedocles carmina, Plato dialogos, Socrates hymnos, Epicharmus comoedias, Xenophon historias, Crates satiras: Apuleius vester haec omnia novemque Musas pari studio colit, maiore scilicet voluntate quam facultate, eoque propensius fortasse laudandus est, quod omnibus bonis in rebus conatus in laude, effectus in casu est, ita ut contra in maleficiis etiam cogitata scelera, non perfecta adhuc vindicantur, cruenta mente, pura manu.
For Empedocles sings in poetry, Plato in dialogues, Socrates in hymns, Epicharmus in comedies, Xenophon in histories, Crates in satires. All of these and all nine Muses your fellow citizen Apuleius reveres with equal ardor, and no doubt with more aspiration than ability. That perhaps makes him all the more praiseworthy, since with every good pursuit the attempt wins praise, but success depends on luck, just as with bad pursuits crimes are punished when they are planned and not yet performed, when the mind is bloody and the hands clean.
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