“If there were women very different from her who made themselves available to everyone, who always had some man who she had openly designated as her lover...who also supported young and they made up for the avarice of their fathers by paying them" (Pro Caelio 38, page 144). Clodia was known throughout Rome for having had many sexual relationships outside of marriage with countless Roman men. Many even consider her the famous Lesbia, the lover of the famous Roman neoteric poet Catullus. Cicero is setting the stage for his denunciation of Clodia by calling her a woman in direct contrast to what a Roman woman should be. We are given countless examples of perfect Roman women: Rhea Silvia, Lucretia, and Virginia, to name a few. Although not directly quoted by Cicero, the stories of these women would be in the public domain in Rome and the fact that Clodia's lifestyle contrasts with those mentioned above would be obvious. Cicero then goes even further and accuses Clodia of being not simply a prostitute but a crude person, with obvious and offensive sexual desires: "her hugs, her kisses, her beach parties, her boat parties and her dinners they declare her not to be simply a prostitute, but a lewd and lascivious prostitute" (Pro Caelio 49, page 148).