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I acknowledge that there is a source for the claim that Tertia and a courtesan introduced Chelidon to Verres, *but* Tertia was a Sicilian, and famously was Verres's mistress during his time in Sicily (according to Cicero's Verrines) in 73-71BC. Whereas Chelidon was Verres's mistress in 74BC during his time as urban praetor (again, according to Cicero's Verrines). So chronologically, although it is possible that Tertia, a Sicilian, was in Rome and already Verres's mistress before 74BC and thus introduced Verres to Chelidon, it seems much more likely that it was the other way around. The page about Tertia mentions that the other woman might have been Pippa, another of Verres's mistresses, who according to Verrines was married to Aeschrio, a Sicilian. So is it more likely that Verres had two Sicilian women as his mistresses before he was posted to Sicily, or that he was introduced to those two women in Sicily by the mistress he had in Rome before he went to Sicily? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.225.215.181 (talk) 21:30, 4 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
