Sassia was a woman of Larinum in ancient Rome who lived in the 1st century BCE.
After the elder Cluentius's death, she married her son-in-law, Aulus Aurius Melinus, the widower of her late daughter Cluentia.
[1][2] Melinus was preparing to accuse Statius Albius Oppianicus -- Sassia's former brother-in-law, who had been married to Sassia's first husband's sister, also named Cluentia -- of the murder of a kinsman, when Oppianicus was appointed chief magistrate of Larinum and managed to have Melinus included in Sulla's proscriptions, during which Melinus was killed.
[4] At the trial in 66 BCE, Cluentius was defended by the orator Cicero, whose defense speech, Pro Cluentio, still exists.
[1] During all these trials, Sassia lost her good name but held on to her fortune, and was never convicted or imprisoned of any crime.