Clœliæ fossæ, a place near Rome. Plutarch, Coriolanus.
Clœlius Gracchus, a general of the Volsci and Sabines against Rome, conquered by Quinctius Cincinnatus the dictator.——Tullus, a Roman ambassador, put to death by Tolumnius king of the Veientes.
Clonas, a musician. Plutarch, de Musica.
Clonia, the mother of Nycteus. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 10.
Clonius, a Bœotian, who went with 50 ships to the Trojan war. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2.——A Trojan killed by Messapus in Italy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 749.——Another, killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 574.
Clotho, the youngest of the three Parcæ, daughter of Jupiter and Themis, or, according to Hesiod, of Night, was supposed to preside over the moment that we are born. She held the distaff in her hand, and spun the thread of life, whence her name (κλωθειν, to spin). She was represented wearing a crown with seven stars, and covered with a variegated robe. See: [Parcæ]. Hesiod, Theogony, li. 218.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 3.
Cluacīna, a name of Venus, whose statue was erected in that place where peace was made between the Romans and Sabines, after the rape of the virgins. See: [Cloacina].
Cluentius, a Roman citizen, accused by his mother of having murdered his father, 54 years B.C. He was ably defended by Cicero, in an oration still extant. The family of the Cluentii was descended from Cloanthus, one of the companions of Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 122.—Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius.
Cluilia fossa, a place five miles distant from Rome. Livy, bk. 1, ch. 23; bk. 2, ch. 39.
Clŭpea and Cly̆pea, now Aklibia, a town of Africa Propria, 22 miles east of Carthage, which receives its name from its exact resemblance to a shield, clypeus. Lucan, bk. 4, li. 586.—Strabo, bk. 17.—Livy, bk. 27, ch. 29.—Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 2, ch. 23.