caerellia

Updated: July 29, 2025

And you did not even retain her, to the end that you might keep Caerellia fearlessly, whom you debauched when she was as much older than yourself as the maiden you married was younger, and to whom you write such letters as a jester at no loss for words would write if he were trying to get up an amour with a woman seventy years old.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus - Dio's Rome, Volume 3 : An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During : The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, : Elagabalus and Alexander Severus