‘It was once’, in the country of sorciers and magia, a horse and a soul. The horse served as a monture in Lucius, a metamorphosis narrative agent. The soup was Lucius himself, an unhappy apprentice and turned into quadrupse. However, with a long narrative tradition structured around the themes of travel and errance, Lucius’s journey is recorded on a clearly differentiated register. There is no reason, in particular, inherited from the Odyssée...