Packet 1: Bonus 13

This woman accused her lover Marcus Caelius Rufus of attempting to poison her. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this person who was accused of assisting in the murder of Dio of Alexandria in Cicero’s Pro Caelio. This person was “more learned than Sappho’s Muse” in several love poems.
ANSWER: Lesbia [accept Claudia Metelli or Clodia Metelli or Quadrantaria or Nola or Medea Palatina]
[10m] Clodia was addressed as Lesbia in 116 carmina by this neoteric Roman poet.
ANSWER: Catullus (“kuh-TUL-us”) [or Gaius Valerius Catullus]
[10e] Catullus praised Lesbia’s beauty while writing in this ancient language used by other Roman authors like Ovid and Virgil.
ANSWER: Latin
<Literature - Other, Charan Shreekumar> | VAULT II Packet 01

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