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Clodia

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Clodia (born Claudia, c. 95 BC or c. 94 BC), nicknamed Quadrantaria, and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus"), was one of three known daughters of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and either Caecilia Metella Balearica, or her cousin, Caecilia Metella daughter of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Diadematus.It is not certain, if, out of three Appius' daughters, she was the eldest or the middle one. It is only known that she was not the youngest sister.She is not to be confused with her niece, Clodia Pulchra, who was briefly married to Octavian.Like many other women of the Roman elite, Clodia was very well educated in Greek and Philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry[citation needed]. Her life, immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and also, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, was characterized by perpetual scandal.