Obliviscor iam iniurias tuas, Clodia, depono memoriam doloris mei

Cicero

Pro Caelio, 50

I now forget your wrongs, Clodia, I set aside the memory of my pain (that you caused)

Cicero’s Pro Caelio

Rome, 4 April 56 BC

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Note: Apophasis, paralipsis (preterition)

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Pro Caelio is one of the best examples of Roman oratory known.

It is noteworthy as a prime example

of Ciceronian oratorical technique

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Note: Clodia is just one of the characters in the story, but her testimony is decisive. The preterition is fundamental.

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Clodia, woman of the Roman elite, was very well educated

with a talent for writing poetry.

Her life, which was characterized by perpetual scandal,

is immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero

and in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus

with the name Lesbia

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