Complete Works of Apuleius, Vol. IV

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Pudentilla

It had been? that? Cnyus Pudentis in? Pudentilla? thus? it seems?, nor? indeed? can these words? be referred? to the Granii?. But Aemilianus himself was the patron and advocate of Pudentilla?. Therefore it must be referred to Aemilianus alone: because he knows the father of the children of Aemilianus, it was the same, when the case for Pudentilla was being conducted by Apuleius against the Granii, they were the Granii's.? The same.

for Murena and other examples and against the orations of Cicero which themselves had been spoken, which had been said and written: Cicero in Brutus and almost ... What was in almost all was ... I think.? Certainly Cornelius Nepos, when he noted it because of the unusual and rare matter, that the Oration for Cornelius was finished by Cicero in the same words in which it was published, with himself present, as St. Jerome reports in Epistle 61. And Cato the Elder at Cicero's: 'of illustrious cases,' he says, 'which I have defended, now I am preparing the orations as much as possible.' The book, therefore, this Apology should rather be called than an Oration: As Cicero's Verrines, Books. Indeed, the excellent Erasmus cites the Book of Apuleius on Magic, this oration?

But finally? lest he take the death of Pontianus, my stepson?. Lollianus seems to have been accused, either because he himself had killed the stepson, or because he was unwilling to marry Pudentilla, the mother of the boy, under any other condition than with him removed: as Catiline, who, captured by love for Aurelia Orestilla, because she was hesitating to marry him, fearing the stepson who was adult in age, is believed for certain to have made the house empty for wicked nuptials by having killed his son; says Sallust.