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Marcus Caelius Rufus was born to an equestrian family in Interamnia Praetuttiorum (modern Teramo) in Picenum on 28 May 82 BCE according to Pliny [1]. At the age when he adopted the toga virilis, his father placed him in the care of M. Tullius Cicero and the wealthy politician-general M. Licinius Crassus for his education, and despite subsequent events he was to remain a close friend of Cicero until his death.
If we are to believe Cicero’s account in his later trial defence, Pro Caelio, Caelius's early years were respectable and decent. However this representation is rather belied by the fact that he briefly disassociated himself from Cicero’s influence and became an active political supporter of Lucius Sergius Catilina during the conspirator’s second attempt to become consul. In his defence of Caelius’s character, Cicero was obliged to adopt a rather forced and uncharacteristic “boys will be boys” attitude to excuse this unfortunate youthful association, but as later events showed, Caelius retained a revolutionary tendency.
Caelius’s first major political achievement was in 59 BCE, when he successfully prosecuted Gaius Antonius Hybrida for corruption. Antonius Hybrida had been co-consul with Cicero in 63, and at his trial was defended by Cicero. The success of the prosec
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Cicero : Pro Caelio
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Caelius Rufus, Marcus
Born (probably) 88 or 87 bc at Interamnia (mod. Teramo),
son of an eques or knight, did his tirocinium fori (apprenticeship to public life) under Cicero and Crassus. As one of a band of upper-class youths he was attracted to Catiline, but did not join in his conspiracy. In 59 he successfully prosecuted Gaius Antonius Hybrida for extortion. Known for a dissolute and extravagant lifestyle, he was also active in politics and in 57/6 was somehow involved in the murder of an Alexandrian embassy opposing Ptolemy XII's restoration. For this he was prosecuted in 56 for violence by the son of Lucius Calpurnius Bestia, whom he had unsuccessfully prosecuted; a Publius Clodius, perhaps the famous Clodius, joined as co-accuser. A vigorous orator, he defended himself and was defended by Crassus and (in a surviving speech) by Cicero, who depicted the prosecution as a plot hatched by Clodia, with whom Caelius had had an affair. Caelius was acquitted and, in revenge, supported Milo as tribune 52, and after Milo's conviction joined Cicero in securing the acquittal of Clodius' actual murderer. During Cicero's proconsulate Caelius was aedile (50) and vainly hoped for Cilician panthers or money from Cicero, whom he informed, in a series of letters written in a delightf