Cicero, though his own life had ever been clean and well ordered, rather affected the company of fast young men when he found them to be witty as well as clever.

This very Clodius had been in his good books till the affair of the Bona Dea.

But now the Tribune's hatred was internecine.

I have hitherto said nothing, and need say but little, of a certain disreputable lady named Clodia.

She was the sister of Clodius and the wife of Metellus Celer.