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The speaker of this work claims he forgives his friend Atratinus, since he has "filial duty" as an excuse, and claims that some borrowed gold was not used to hire slaves to kill Dion the Alexandrian. An extended passage of this speech is a noted use of prosopopeia, as the speaker takes on the voice of the long-dead Appius Claudius Caecus if he "were to rise up right now." Its speaker makes an accusation of incest by noting he has no ill-feeling toward the addressee's "lover--I'm sorry, I meant to say 'brother.'" This speech dismisses charges of poisoning and theft of gold by focusing on the accuser, a so-called "Medea of the Palatine" who was the basis for Catullus' (*) Lesbia. For 10 points, name this invective delivered by Cicero against Clodia, which is ostensibly a defense of the title Roman nobleman.
The speaker of this work claims he forgives his friend Atratinus, since he has "filial duty" as an excuse, and claims that some borrowed gold was not used to hire slaves to kill Dion the Alexandrian.
Pro Caelio [or On Behalf of Caelius; or In Defense of Claudius; prompt on In Clodiam; prompt on Against Clodia]