Cælius

, an orator, disciple to Cicero. He died very young. Cicero defended him when he was accused by Clodius of being acce ary to Cat i line’s conspiracy, and of having murdered some amba adors from Alexandria, and carried on an illicit amour with Clodia the wife of Me tell us. Pro Cælio .— Quintilian , bk. 10 , ch. 1 .――A man of Tarracina, found murdered in his bed. His sons were suspected of the murder, but acquitted. Valerius Maximus , bk. 8 , ch. 1 .――Aurelian us, a writer about 300 years after Christ, the best edition of whose works is that of Almeloveen, Amsterdam, 1722 and 1755.――Lucius Anti pater, wrote a history of Rome, which Marcus Brutus epitomized, and which Adrian preferred to the histories of Sallust. Cælius flourished 120 years B.C. Valerius Maximus , bk. 1 , ch. 7 .— Cicero , bk. 13 , Letters to Atticus , ltr. 8 .――Tubero, a man who came to life after he had been carried to the burning pile. Pliny , bk. 7 , ch. 52 .――Vibienus, a king of Etruria, who a isted Romulus against the Cæninenses, . ――Sabinus, a writer in the age of Vespas i an, who composed a treatise on the edicts of the curule ediles.――One of the seven hills on which Rome was built. Romulus surrounded it with a ditch and rampart, and it was enclosed by walls by the succeeding kings. It received its name from Cælius, who a isted Romulus against the Sabines.