Clodius
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman figure mentioned alongside Cicero as having witnessed and inherited under the same will.
Cicero, for instance, mentions that he and Clodius were both witnesses to a will in which they were appointed heirs, Pro Milone, 18, 48;
On Anger
Roman politician remembered for engineering Cicero's exile, cited as an example evoking reader indignation.
Often we seem to grow angry at Clodius driving Cicero into exile, at Antony putting him to death;
On the Shortness of Life
Roman politician named as one of the adversaries who buffeted Cicero.
Marcus Cicero, tossed about among the likes of Catiline and Clodius, among the Pompeys and the Crassuses—some open enemies, some doubtful friends—while he is buffeted along with the state and holds it back as it founders, only to be swept away at last, neither at rest in prosperity nor able to endure adversity—how often does he curse that very consulship of his, praised by himself not without cause, but without end!