it's at cupid and psyche classical tradition there's a footnote it's meant just to provide a context for why the tale was known and allegorized in the th and th centuries but then resurfaces only in the mid th century among the florentine humanists the section is on literary reception not the transmission of the text as such which i would see as belonging properly to the article on the metamorphoses as a whole i regard it as unfortunate that we go with the golden ass