- 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...
-
survives to
determine that the text
below the
image once read: M[ARCO]
CAELIO T[ITI] F[ILIO] LEM[ONIA TRIBV] BON[ONIA] P[RIMVS] O[RDO] LEG[IONIS] XIIX...
- 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 in...
- 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...
-
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 to...
- 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...
-
poison her. The
trial ends with the
defendant acquitted thanks to the Pro
Caelio speech of Cicero.
There is no more
reference to the
formerly well-known...
- 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...
- culture.
Titles are
ordered chronologically. In Cicero's
court case Pro
Caelio (56 BC), the name
Medea is
mentioned several times, as a way to make fun...
- (consul 79 BC), a
woman whom
Cicero attacks mercilessly in his
speech Pro
Caelio. This identification,
though not certain, is
thought probable by modern...
