Chapter

 1 18 |          the days of old, poverty mother of all arts, witless of
 2 28 | embittered against myself and his mother through no fault of mine:
 3 39 |          the tales his father and mother told him of the immortal
 4 68 |          were brought up by their mother with remarkable care and
 5 71 |        Pontianus on receiving his mother's letter hastily flew hither
 6 71 |           brother depended on his mother. His grandfather had left
 7 71 |           a moderate fortune, his mother possessed 4,000,000 sesterces.
 8 72 |    delicate position owing to the mother's request and the son's
 9 72 |          an ideal husband for his mother to whom he could without
10 72 |           become his guest in his mother's house. I should find the
11 73 |          strongly recommended his mother and his brother -- that
12 73 |      match between myself and his mother, for whose hand there were
13 73 |           plain appearance nd the mother of children -- if I were
14 73 |  Pontianus had also persuaded his mother to give me the preference
15 74 |       deliberate quarrel with his mother, must not b e laid to his
16 75 |        him unencumbered from h is mother's property, over and above
17 76 |        was a daughter who, at her mother's instigation, was exhibited
18 76 |         Who did not recognize her mother's pupil, when they saw her
19 77 |          for having betrothed his mother to me. He urged him to draw
20 77 |         was yet time; to keep his mother's fortune himself rather
21 77 |    purpose. Pontianus went to his mother and told her what Rufinus
22 77 |         to his father-in-law. His mother had shown a firmness of
23 82 |                          82] ~The mother was rebuking her son because,
24 84 |        his usual custom, kept his mother's letter safe in its entirety:
25 84 |    designs. ~Suppose now that the mother, after her wont, had made
26 85 |        Maximus, a letter from his mother, which he chooses to regard
27 85 |        emperor Pius to accuse his mother of yielding to a shameful
28 85 |   creatures, do you pry into your mother's heart in such matters,
29 85 |          save the affec tion of a mother for her son? Ah! Pudentilla,
30 85 |       only by gnawing through its mother's womb; its parent must
31 85 |          like yourself repays his mother for the life she gave him,
32 86 |         you dealt as son with his mother? You see how close is my
33 86 |           lettcrs written by your mother which, according to your
34 86 |           never have touched your mother's letters, had you ever
35 86 |         letter written about your mother in outrageously disrespectful,
36 86 |       time when you caressed your mother with false words of love,
37 87 |       whether he then noticed his mother's alleged madness to have
38 87 |          just related to you, his mother married me in her country
39 88 | market-place. She that would be a mother should marry in the very
40 88 |          in the very bosom of her mother, among the standing crops,
41 88 |          vine, on the very lap of mother earth, among t he springing
42 93 |   dissemination of strife between mother and sons, the alienation
43 93 |       reluctant. I reconciled the mother with her sons, and began
44 94 |           to visit us, before his mother had completed her donation.
45 96 |        the money given him by his mother; Pontianus rejoiced with
46 97 |        aloud -- he app ointed his mother and his brother, against
47 98 |    breathed his last, he left his mother and migrated to his uncle'
48 98 |           word picked up from his mother, he neither will nor can
49 98 |         you asked him whether his mother had given himself and his
50 99 |          wicked step-son with his mother, as a father might c ontend
51 100|          so unfilial a son by his mother. Each word of it was preceded
52 100|         esh is heir. Take up your mother's will. You are right, in
53 100|           of sons! Lay aside your mother's love-letters for a while
54 100|         easier then to prove your mother's insanity. Why do you draw
55 100|           the inheritance of your mother's fortune? ~
56 101|         will. He may approach his mother himsel f for the future;
57 101|        him himself dictate to his mother the terms of an unpalatable
58 101|         be able to plead with his mother. ~I am more than satisfied