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Often appears with: marriage negotiations · marriage and betrothal · herennius rufinus · counsel and advisers to rulers · conquest, plunder, and captives · broken promises
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1) · indignation (1)
Apuleius describes how Pontianus persuaded him in Oea to marry Pudentilla, then confesses that Pontianus later broke promises after marrying but blames the quarrel on Rufinus, whom he attacks as a corrupt instigator.
as I may, lest, if I pass him by in silence, the energy which he has shown in engineering this accusation against me should have been spent all in vain. This is the man who poisoned that worthless boy against me, who is the prime mover in this accusation, who has hired advocates and bought witnesses. This is the furnace in which all this calumny has been forged, this the firebrand, this the scourge that has driven A…