per litt. en · ADV
Etymology
Abbreviation of Latin per litterās (“by letter”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) By letter; in a message to the author.
It is important to note here that in Origen’s thought ‘the imprisonment of the logikoi in coarse and painful material bodies was not entirely punitive’, […] (Warren Smith, per litt., 16 January 2007).
2008, Stephen J. Davis, Coptic Christology in Practice: Incarnation and Divine Participation in Late Antique and Medieval Egypt, →ISBN, page 9, note 38:Jean Lallot (per litt.) obliges me to clarify my thoughts on this subject.
2002, Anna Morpurgo Davies, “The Greek Notion of Dialect”, in Thomas Harrison, editor, Greeks and Barbarians, →ISBN, page 169, note 31:Canevaro 2013, 2015, forthcoming, argues for a somewhat different procedure and suggests (per litt.) that under the new rules, the procedures for making constitutional laws were distinct from and more cumbersome than those for making ordinary legislative decrees.
2017, Josiah Ober, Demopolis: Democracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 31, note 26:However, Prof. Rubincam suggests to me, per litt., that Diodorus might, alternatively, here and elsewhere, “have been unconsciously influenced by the different structure of the Roman chief magistracy of two consuls,” an undeniably attractive theory.
2006, Peter Green, editor, Diodorus Siculus, Books 11–12.37.1. Greek History, 480–431 BC: The Alternative Version, →ISBN, page 169, note 363: