It was probably in Rome that Catullus fell deeply in love with the " Lesbia " of his poems, who is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri and sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher.

There is little reliable information on his political activity as a young man, although it is known that he was an associate of Clodius.

* Envoys from Cilicia come to Rome to accuse their late governor, Cossutianus Captio, of extortion ; the Roman Senate is supported in the case by Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus.

Cicero In the court case Pro Caelio, the name Medea is mentioned at least five times, as a way to make fun of Clodia, sister of P. Clodius Pulcher, the man who exiled Cicero.

* In order to assure the support of the legions in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul.

* Milo is tried for the murder of Clodius.

In an otherwise seemingly thorough account, Cicero makes no mention of Bona Dea's May festival, and claims the goddess ' cult as an aristocratic privilege from the first ; the impeccably patrician Clodius, Cicero's social superior by birth, is presented as an innately impious, low-class oaf, and his popularist policies as threats to Rome's moral and religious security.

Cicero says, " This Livius exhibited his first performance at Rome in the Consulship of M. Tuditanus, and C. Clodius the son of Caecus, the year before Ennius was born ," that is, in 240 BC.

* Clodius is a key player in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series books Caesar's Women and Caesar.

* Clodius is a particular enemy of Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger in the SPQR series of mysteries by John Maddox Roberts.

Clodius ( or Claudius ) Aesopus was the most celebrated tragic actor of Ancient Rome in time of Cicero, that is, the 1st century BC, but the dates of his birth and death are not known.

Legio I Macriana liberatrix ( Latin for " First legion Macriana liberatrix "; Macriana is a reference to its founder, Macer ) was a Roman legion levied in Africa by the governor Lucius Clodius Macer in 68.

Though many ancient sources wrote that Fulvia was happy to take revenge against Cicero for Antony's and Clodius ' sake, Cassius Dio is the only ancient source that describes the joy with which she pierced the tongue of the dead Cicero with her golden hairpins, as a final revenge against Cicero's power of speech.

As in the case of Clodius, one could be adopted by a man younger than oneself ; his sister Clodia is also one of the known examples of a Roman woman being adopted.

There is opposition from first Pescennius Niger and then Clodius Albinus

In his book Catullan Questions, T. P. Wiseman argues that the identification of Lesbia as one of Clodius Pulcher ’ s three sisters is undeniable.

Moreover, scholars agree that the repeated word “ pulcher ,” meaning “ pretty ,” in Catullus ’ poem 79 is a pun on Clodius ’ s cognomen, Pulcher.

Thus, the Lesbius in that poem is Clodius Pulcher, and Lesbia must be one of his three sisters.

Nonetheless, Wiseman concludes that while it is certain Lesbia was one of Clodius ’ three sisters named Clodia, it is impossible to determine which of these she was.

However, this association is weakened somewhat by James L. Butrica ’ s argument in “ Clodius the Pulcher In Catullus and Cicero .” He emphasizes the prominence of the word pulcher in Catullus ’ s poem and acknowledges that it identifies the character Lesbius with Clodius Pulcher and Lesbia with Clodia Metelli.

Thus, Butrica argues that the twist in Catullus 79 is the pun on Clodius ’ s cognomen with a synonym for exoletus, and he connects this characterization with fragments of lost Cicero speeches that attribute similar qualities to Clodius Pulcher.

See also Clodius for members of the gens who used the alternate spelling of the name primarily or solely.

Although a brother-in-law of Lucullus, Clodius was also frater in some form ( whether a first cousin frater consobrinus or uterine brother ) of Pompey's wife Mucia Tertia.

* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.

* 197 – Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain

* Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus retires from the Roman Senate.

* The Roman governors Clodius Albinus ( Britannia ) and Pescennius Niger ( Syria ) claim with support of their troops the imperial throne.

* Septimius Severus finally gains control of the Roman Empire, in Britain Clodius Albinus allies with him and accepted the title of Caesar.

* Imperator Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls.

* February 19 – Clodius Albinus, rival for Roman Emperor ( b. 150 )

* Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus, later Roman Emperor ( approximate date )

Cyprus became a Roman province in 58 BC, according to Strabo because Publius Clodius Pulcher held a grudge against Ptolemy and sent Marcus Cato to conquer the island after he had become tribune.

* Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman tribune, institutes a monthly corn dole for poor Romans, and exiles Cicero from the city.

* Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician ( d. 52 BC )

Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus and Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus ( both died on July 29, 238 ) were two Roman co-emperors elected by the Roman senate on April 22, 238 after the failure of Gordian I and Gordian II to defeat the usurper Maximinus Thrax.

A sizeable group of male and female busts, including Augustus, Antoninus Pius, Clodius Albinus and Vibia Sabina indicate the interest in capturing the sitter's personality evident in Roman art of this period.

Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Roman senator, lived in the first century CE.

Publius Clodius Pulcher ( c. 93 BC – December 52 BC, on 18 Ianuarius of the pre-Julian calendar ) was a Roman politician known for his popularist tactics.

As tribune Clodius introduced a law threatening exile to anyone who executed a Roman citizen without a trial.

The marriages of Fulvia, who commanded troops during the last civil war of the Republic and who was the first Roman woman to have her face on a coin, are thought to indicate her own political sympathies and ambitions: she was married first to the popularist champion Clodius Pulcher, who was murdered in the street after a long feud with Cicero ; then to Scribonius Curio, a figure of less ideological certitude who at the time of his death had come over to Julius Caesar ; and finally to Mark Antony, the last opponent to the republican oligarchs and to Rome's future first emperor.

Lucius Clodius Macer was a legatus of the Roman Empire in Africa in the time of Nero.

Through her marriage to three of the most promising Roman men of her generation, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio and Mark Antony, she gained access to power.

but was exiled in 58 BC after the apprehention of people's tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher, accused of mastering the unlawful execution of Roman citizens, among them Sura.