Clodia
"Lesbia", the subject of many of the Roman poet Catullus's works was probably Clodia, a society hostess whom he had an affair with.Clodia was the sister of the politician Publius Clodius Pulcher. This partly explains the unflattering portrait of her in Cicero's Pro Caelio[?].
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he had agreed to leave Harry at the house; to which he had first been
suspect, from what I heard afterwards, because Mr. Gray gave up all
the very manner which Mr. Horner most desired.
As for Gregson the father--he--wild man of the woods, poacher,
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you about, when Mr. Gray and even my lady had interested themselves
justice he had ever met with; it attracted him to the people, and
am not sure if any of the villagers were grateful to him for
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whom had earned for themselves no good character in service: one,
distant part of the county; and the tale was yet told in the village
rage, striding through the place, and uttering oaths of vengeance to
his arms working by his side, and now and then tossed up in his
child-laden and weeping. After this, they had vanished from the
key, as the neighbours said, buried in a hedge bank. The Gregsons
Hanbury. He had either never heard of their evil character, or
care; and the end of it was, that this rough, untamed, strong giant
distrustful parson. Gregson had also a kind of grumbling respect for
Harry: the mother submitted to that with a better grace, swallowing
to a better and more respectable position than that in which.
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