The affair ends badly, and Catullus's declarations of love turn to attacks on her sexual appetites — rhetoric that accords with the other hostile source on Clodia's behavior, Cicero's Pro Caelio.
A aventura acabou mal e as declaracións de amor de Catulo convertéronse en ataques aos apetitos sexuais dela —retórica que concorda coa outra fonte hostil ao comportamento de Clodia: o Prol Caelio de Cicerón—.