Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XX
Chapter XX.—The Use Made of It.
“I therefore, having received this billet from Appion, as though I were really going to send it to a beloved one, pretended as if she had written in answer to it; and the next day, when Appion came, I gave him the reply, as if from her, as follows:—