Chapter IX.-A Love-Letter.
"Then Appion said: `I am all the more hopeful to be able to persuade her, as you wish, provided only we be able to converse with her.' `That, 'said I, `is impossible.' Then Appion asked if it were possible to scud a letter to her. Then I said: `That indeed may be done.' Then Appion said: `This very night I shall write a paper on encomiums of adultery, which you shall get from me and despatch to her; and I hope that she shall be persuaded, and consent.' Appion accordingly wrote the paper, and gave it to me; and I thought of it this very night, and I remembered that fortunately I have it by me, along with other papers which I carry about with me." Having thus spoken, I showed the paper to those who were present, and read it to them as they wished to hear it; and having read it, I said: "This, O men, is the instruction of the Greeks, affording a bountiful licence to sin without fear. The paper was as follows:-