He said it amused him to take advantage of it.

Nay, I will do him justice, he praised your beauty.

Who could deny it?
But he laughed scornfully when his Clodius, or his Lepidus, asked him if he loved you enough for marriage, and when he purposed to adorn his door-posts with flowers ?' 'Impossible! How heard you this base slander ?' 'Nay, would you have me relate to you all the comments of the insolent coxcombs with which the story has circled through the town?
Be assured that I myself disbelieved at first, and that I have now painfully been convinced by several ear-witnesses of the truth of what I have reluctantly told thee.' Ione sank back, and her face was whiter than the pillar against which she leaned for support.
'I own it vexed--it irritated me, to hear your name thus lightly pitched from lip to lip, like some mere dancing-girl's fame.

I hastened this morning to seek and to warn you.

I found Glaucus here.