Chapter

 1 6 |       my jeux d'esprit, a brief letter in verse, addressed to a
 2 6 |        Calpurnianus produced my letter as evidence against me,
 3 6 |         that if anything in the letter could be urged as a reproach
 4 27|   express certain opinions in a letter?' As if anyone should give
 5 30|     unable to read Pudentilla's letter which was written in Greek.
 6 69|      should marry? ~Give me the letter, or better give it to Aemilianus
 7 69|         own words. Is this your letter? Why do you turn pale? We
 8 70|     know, you villain, that the letter you had written on the subject
 9 70|         rather than forward the letter preferred to keep it as
10 70|        Furthermore, she wrote a letter of her own on the same subject
11 70|       will order a copy of this letter to her son to be read aloud. (...) ~
12 71|                       71] ~This letter makes it, I think, sufficiently
13 71|       on receiving his mother's letter hastily flew hither from
14 78|         wrote him the notorious letter, in which, according to
15 78|    command I took a copy of the letter in the presence of witnesses
16 79|         driven to write a lying letter? Is it not rather a device
17 79|         is written in a private letter! Why do not you prove me
18 79|       one may have written in a letter under the influence of love
19 79|    called you a magician in her letter; therefore yo u are a magician!'
20 79|        a gross injustice that a letter should have power to destroy
21 79|     them chances to say so in a letter? If, indeed, Pudentilla
22 79|   indeed, Pudentilla wrote in a letter to another person what would
23 80| dialectic! ~I will read out the letter which gives crying witness
24 81|        remains a portion of the letter which, although like the
25 81|      the alteration of a single letter be transformed into an acc
26 82|        was that the rest of the letter was too disgusting to be
27 82|      probable enough. That very letter, which was written to clear
28 82|  bacchanal; he kept opening the letter and proclaiming, `Apuleius
29 82|         the actual order of the letter will show.~
30 83| disingenuous excerpts from that letter, read but a few lines an
31 83|       lie by means of another's letter, but rather listen to them;
32 84| challenged me with Pudentilla's letter: with that letter I win
33 84|  Pudentilla's letter: with that letter I win the day. If you like
34 84|        with which she ended the letter, that poor bewitched, lunatic,
35 84|       custom, kept his mother's letter safe in its entirety: it
36 84|  opportunity for adding to that letter at your leisure. For this
37 84|  passion for me in some private letter to her son. Was it just,
38 85|         as Cla udius Maximus, a letter from his mother, which he
39 86|         of humanity forbade one letter to be read aloud, a le tter
40 86|     have also dared to submit a letter of your own to be read,
41 86|       of your own to be read, a letter written about your mother
42 86|        estimation by using your letter as proof that even before
43 87|       fool as to think that the letter of a mere boy, who is also
44 87|       There is also that forged letter by which they attempted
45 87|      secure poss ession of that letter which must, as is usual
46 87|       he who could not read the letter which Pudentil la wrote
47 87|    found it easier to read this letter and set it off to greater
48 87|     having freely published the letter she had sent him without
49 94|     request also and gave him a letter with which he set off to
50 94|  readily give a hearing to this letter. Indeed, if it is to be
51 94|         myself. Give me Avitus' letter. That I should have received
52 94|     gladly read and re-read the letter of that excellent man to
53 95|         that after reading this letter I should bring my speech
54 96|        praises so warmly in his letter? Or do you have greater
55 96|   instead of reading merely his letter. What is there in the whole