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Letter Writing. 59. In Cicero's time letters were commonly written either upon wax tablets or papyrus. Reference is made in Cic. Cat. 3.5 to a letter upon wax tablets, and they were not infrequently used as late as the fifth century A.D.Thompson, Greek and Latin Palaeography, p.22.; but the introduction into Italy of papyrus, which is mentioned as early as the time of Ennius,Marquardt, Handbuch, vol. VII. p.808, n. l. gradually restricted the use of wax tablets, so that, in so far as letters were concerned, they were in general used only in writing to a correspondent near at hand, especially when one hoped for an immediate answer upon the tablets sent. Thus Cicero writes to Lepta: simul atque accepi a Seleuco tuo litteras, statim quaesivi e Balbo per codicillos quid esset in lege. Fam. 6.18.1. Such occasional notes were called codicilliCf. also Seneca, Ep. 55.11. as indicated in the extract, or sometimes pugillares. For letters, however, sent to a distance, as most of Cicero'