He put away his wife Pompeia because her name was linked in gossip with Clodius, but later, when Clodius was brought to trial on this charge, and [p. 225] Caesar was cited as a witness, he spoke no evil of his wife. And when the prosecutor asked, ‘Then why did you put her out of the house ?’ he replied, ‘Because Caesar's wife must be free from suspicion.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Caesar, chap. x. (712 C); Life of Cicero, chap. xxix. (875 E); Dio Cassius, xxxvii. 45; Suetonius, Divus Iulius 6 and 74.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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