A use of the term frater in the Pro Caelio

Author: Bush, Archie C.
Title: A use of the term frater in the Pro Caelio
Review/Collection: "Classical Journal", 82, 1
Place edition: Gainesville
Editor: The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)
Year edition: 1986
Pages: 37-39
Keywords: Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: [Gianluca Scatigno] [Comment] In Pro Caelio 32, by playing on the terms vir and frater and by making fun of the relations between Clodia and her husband Metellus and between Clodia and her brother Clodius, Cicero extends the meaning of frater to that of lover and husband.
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Link: http://www.jstor.org.bibliopass.unito.it/stable/3297805
Author initials: Bush 1986