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On my desk at home is a little Roman terra cotta lamp, with the name "Clodius" stamped in it.
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Cicero calls Clodius a religious man, and the irony requires to be kept up through the whole passage.
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Though the pedigrees of noble families of Rome go back in exact form as far as Numa Pompilius, yet there is great diversity amongst historians concerning the time in which he reigned; a certain writer called Clodius, in a book of his entitled Strictures on
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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-- Morning Post, June 7, 1809.] [Footnote 101: See note on line 686, infra.] [Footnote 102: 'Clodius' -- "Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur."
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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[44] In fine the word love signifies more fervour, efficacy, and activity than that of dilection, so that amongst the Latins dilection is much less significative than love: "Clodius," says their great orator, "bears me dilection, and to say it more excellently, he loves me."
Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884
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Wharton, Lord; as "Clodius"; attacked by Swift under the name of Verres; desecration of a church by.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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Aelius, who was Varro's tutor, accompanied him to Rhodes or Smyrna, when he was unjustly banished, A.U.C. 653.] [Footnote 854: Servius Claudius (also called Clodius) is commended by
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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"Clodius," says Dion Cassius, "had discovered that among the senators Cicero was more feared than loved.
Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856
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But he knew that Clodius would probably be bearing some choice morsel of gossip, and curiosity got the better of him.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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AROUND THIS TIME, exactly as Clodius had predicted, Pompey the Great returned to Italy, making land at Brundisium.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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