Cluentia (wife of Aulus Aurius Melinus)

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Cluentia was the Italian race of Cluentier entstammende, in the 1st century. Living nobles.

Cluentia was a daughter of Aulus Cluentius Habitus, a respected man from Larinum in Samnium , and his wife Sassia. When her father died in 88 BC Cluentia was already an adult and soon afterwards married her relative Aulus Aurius Melinus . After two years of marriage, however, she divorced her husband because her own mother Sassia fell in love with him and wanted to marry him.

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  1. ^ Cicero , Pro A. Cluentio 11.
  2. ^ Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 14.