Clodius trial

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans primary

Cicero supports prosecutions with testimony against Clodius while Terentia’s motives and personal grudges are implicated, after which Clodius’s faction uses bribery and power to pursue Cicero’s downfall.

and having been told by someone that Vatinius was dead, on hearing presently after that he was alive, "May the rascal perish," said he, "for his news not being true." Upon Caesar's bringing forward a law for the division of the lands in Campania amongst the soldiers, many in the senate opposed it; amongst the rest, Lucius Gellius, one of the oldest men in the house, said it should never pass whilst he lived. "Let us…