Letter

and now, in a way I find marvellous, you have recalled and consoled me by your letter.

I recognized your letter, as men recognize the children of their friends by the likeness that appears in them to those who begot them.

Nor do you relax at all in your zeal for letters, but, as Plato says, in the storm and tempest of affairs, standing apart as it were beneath some strong wall, you fill your soul with no disturbance;

Pylades:

Pylades:

Orestes:

’ The king was angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so he sent him to Lycia bearing baneful signs [ sêmata], written inside a folded tablet and containing much ill against the bearer.

"When he reached the river Xanthos, which is in Lycia, the king received him with all goodwill, feasted him nine days, and killed nine heifers in his honor, but when rosy-fingered morning appeared upon the tenth day, he questioned him and desired to see the written signs [ sêmata] from his son-in-law Proetus.

If I were younger, I should not be sending you a letter, but should myself take ship and converse with you there;

but when written missives are used and any such misconception arises, there is no one to correct it, for since the writer is not at hand, the defender is lacking.

I know, to be sure, that when men essay to give advice, it is far preferable that they should come in person rather than send a letter, not only because it is easier to discuss the same matters face to face than to give their views by letter, nor yet because all men give greater credence to the spoken rather than to the written word, since they listen to the former as to practical advice and to th …

for even now I have unawares gradually drifted beyond the due proportions of a letter and run into a lengthy discourse.

I should have greatly preferred to send you this letter before your campaign in order that, had you heeded my advice, you might not have incurred so great danger, or if you had rejected it, I should not now seem to be advising that same caution which has already, because of the wound you received, been approved by all;

Nor long ere this had letters been devised-

Sending a defamatory letter to a wife about her husband is a publication:

That an open message passes through the hands of a telegraph clerk, or a manuscript through those of a compositor in a printing-office, or a letter dictated by a principal is taken down in shorthand and type-written by a clerk, is enough to constitute a publication to those persons if they are capable of understanding the matters so delivered to them.

When he writes a letter he does not say, "You would be doing me a favour," but "I wish this to be done, and I have sent to you to receive it," and "See that it is done in no other way and with all speed.