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Cluentia

Clue'ntia

1. Sister of the elder A. Cluentius Habitus. She was one of the numerous wives of Statius Albius Oppianicus, and, according to the representation of Cicero, was poisoned by her husband (pro Cluent. 10). This Cluentia, in Orelli's Onomasticon Tullianum, seems to be confounded with her niece. [No. 2.]

Clue'ntia

2. Daughter of the elder A. Cluentius Habitus. Soon after her father's death she married her first cousin A. Aurius Melinus, from whom she was soon divorced in order to make way for her own mother, Sassia, who had conceived a passion for the husband of her daughter. (Pro Cluent. 5.) [W.R]

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