Pro Caelio - Tapa dura

In 56 B.C., M. Caelius Rufus was prosecuted for V.I.S by L. Sempronius Atratinus in a trial with important social and political implications. This third edition of Cicero's speech in defense of Caelius reproduces A.C. Clark's authoritative text along with a new 17th-century conjecture on Caelius' birthplace, and updated notes and appendices on a variety of political, social, and literary concerns, including the connection between Caelius and Catallus.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) was an orator, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher of Ancient Rome. He is generally considered the greatest Latin orator and prose stylist. R. G. Austin is at University of Liverpool.