Show I I SALON OF CICERO'S TIME Tho salon of or Clodia Clod la on the Palatine Palatino on and andLa andin in La her villa on the thc seashore at ac drew together r the foremost politicians pools poets and orators of oC tho tim time time men men of or orthe the ol older er generation like Cicero and Metellus young men like her brother Clod I us tho the brilliant and nol and erratic ci tribune or whom Cicero calls nUs the best Informed politician In nome Koine The Tho burning eyes ot or Clodia which Cicero celebrates celebrate in his fierce nerce attack on her h her ht t skill tut as a a. dancer her abandon and bo- bo er n pride and contempt con- con tempt for popular r. opinion o ai-o all aU marks of or that lint llory lier southern which could find no lI course bet between love and hate bale Which would 1 hesitate for 01 no un scruple and bo be d L by no oL obstacle from gratifying her hen de desires or ll her thirst for tar rc revenge which would bi III na as fickle as It would 1 be b rr re UC K toward ton In others lathers It is her llor and n her bee misfortune that her character and andl l' l exploits h have hr r been painted T. by tho the most gifted poet the lie greatest orator tend and one of or the most moat brilliant wits of or nor her time She tired of ur and ho poured upon tipon her her- herall all the tho vials of ot his bis and scorn Brom She Sho to ensnare Cicero and arid she ho avenged hors herself ir upon Mn him b by driving him into exile exile- arid and taking his property from him h was Jilted tend Unshed at b by tho the d devoted and consequently con- con brought u hl a n charge IiO of or attempted murd murder r against him and almost corn corn- passed his hla ruin Whether she ho h deserved the abuso which h heaps haps upon 11 her r In iii his later latr pecan I whether she merits the epitaph of or lb ho lures cent Chy tern tern- nestra which limits upon h her r. r or l It is tho the P Palatine Pal Mc Medea o. o whom Cicero paints h liar her r in his hi defense defence of or C Ca we ve veIn e tim In y never nover know v September |