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{{Infobox person
| name = Terentia
| image = Terentia forcibly dragged from the Temple of Vesta.jpg
| caption = Terentia being dragged from the Temple of Vesta
| birth_date = 98 BC
| birth_place =
| death_date = 6 AD (aged 103–104)
| death_place =
| known_for = Being the wife (and ex-wife) of Cicero
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==Cicero's exile and family crisis==
In 58 BC, Cicero was exiled from Rome for the allegedly illegal execution of Roman citizens in the [[Catiline]] conspiracy. [[Publius Clodius Pulcher]] enacted the bill with the purpose of getting revenge on Cicero for the fact that he had nullified Clodius' alibi in the [[Bona Dea]] affair.<ref name="Salisbury">[[Joyce E. Salisbury|Salisbury, Joyce E.]] ''Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world.'' Santa Barbara, Calif.: Abc-Clio, 2001</ref> [[Plutarch]], in his ''[[Parallel Lives]]'', tells us that Cicero was compelled to testify against Clodius by Terentia, in order to prove that he was not having an affair with [[Clodia (wife of Metellus)|Clodia]] (Clodius' sister). However, this story is most likely conceived either by Plutarch himself or a slanderer of Cicero. Plutarch's intentions were to show Terentia as an oppressive wife and thus to show Cicero as a weak man under the control of his wife.<ref>[[s:Lives (Dryden translation)/Cicero]]</ref><ref>Treggiari 49</ref>
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