Pro Caelio is a speech given on 4 April 56 BC, by the famed Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus, who had once been Cicero's...
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Pulcher; her conduct and motives are maligned in Cicero's extant speech Pro Caelio, delivered in 56 BC. Lesbia is the subject of 25 of Catullus' 116 surviving...
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publica) in March 56 BC, when Cicero defended him in the extant speech Pro Caelio, and as both recipient and author of some of the best-written letters...
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jealousy, so I won't even mention what a betrayal it was." In Cicero's "Pro Caelio" speech, he says to a prosecutor, "Obliviscor iam iniurias tuas, Clodia...
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Cicero, who took a harsh approach against her, recorded in his speech Pro Caelio. Cicero had a personal interest in the case, as Clodia's brother Clodius...
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(consul 79 BC), a woman whom Cicero attacks mercilessly in his speech Pro Caelio. This identification, though not certain, is thought probable by modern...
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another perspective on the action being described. For example, in Cicero's Pro Caelio, Cicero speaks as Appius Claudius Caecus, a stern old man. This serves...
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accords with the other hostile source on Clodia's behavior, Cicero's Pro Caelio. In The Art of Love, Ovid goes a step further, adopting the genre of didactic...
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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae, Post Reditum in Senatu, Pro Caelio, Pro Cluentio, Pro Quinctio. Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae (Elegies). Quintus...
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politician who was elected suffect consul in 34 BC. He is mentioned in Pro Caelio, a famous speech in defense of Marcus Caelius Rufus by Marcus Tullius...
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