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| The evidence for Piso's bundle of imperial letters is found in Suetonius, who mentions that Tiberius ruled them inadmissable as they were confidential correspondence of a private nature. Tacitus, with his focus on the prosecution, does not spend much, if any, time on Piso's self-defense. Graves, relying on Suetonius, adds that the letters were sealed with a sphinx. Pulman's pudgy Piso slyly slipping scrolls from his sinus* is a smarmy treat.
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