Apologia

Apuleius · Bohn's Classical Library (1853)

Maximus Claudius, and you who are sitting here in judgment, I felt fully assured, that Sicinius Æmilianus, an old man, notorious for audacity, would, for want of substantial charges, fill up with nothing but abuse the accusation he undertook to make against me, before he had well considered the matter. Now any innocent person may be accused, hut no one can be proved guilty unless he is so. Relying especially on this consideration, by the Gods of heaven! I do rejoice that, with you for my judge, the power and the opportunity have fallen to my lot, of exculpating Philosophy in the eyes of the ignorant, and defending myself. And yet these charges — serious-looking charges at first view — were made with a suddenness that tended to embarrass my defence. For, as you remember, five or six days ago, when I was beginning to plead the cause of my wife, Pudentilla, against the Granii, the …

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