Clusia, a daughter of an Etrurian king, of whom Valerius Torquatus the Roman general became enamoured. He asked her of her father, who slighted his addresses; upon which he besieged and destroyed his town. Clusia threw herself down from a high tower, and came to the ground unhurt. Plutarch, Parallela minora.
Clusīni fontes, baths in Etruria. Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 15, li. 9.
Clusium, now Chiusi, a town of Etruria, taken by the Gauls under Brennus. Porsena was buried there. At the north of Clusium there was a lake called Clusina lacus, which extended northward as far as Arretium, and had a communication with the Arnus, which falls into the sea at Pisa. Diodorus, bk. 14.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, lis. 167 & 655.
Clusius, a river of Cisalpine Gaul. Polybius, bk. 2.——The surname of Janus, when his temple was shut. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 1, li. 130.
Cluvia, a noted debauchee, &c. Juvenal, satire 2, li. 49.
Cluvius Rufus, a questor, A.U.C. 693. Cicero, Letters to his Friends, bk. 13, ltr. 56.——A man of Puteoli appointed by Cæsar to divide the lands of Gaul, &c. Cicero, Letters to his Friends, bk. 13, ch. 7.
Clymĕne, a daughter of Oceanus and [♦]Tethys, who married Japetus, by whom she had Atlas, Prometheus, Menœtius, and Epimetheus. Hesiod, Theogony.——One of the Nereides, mother of Mnemosyne by Jupiter. Hyginus.——The mother of Thesimenus by Parthenopæus. Hyginus, fable 71.——A daughter of Mymas, mother of Atalanta by Jasus. Apollodorus, bk. 3.——A daughter of Crateus, who married Nauplius. Apollodorus, bk. 2.——The mother of Phaeton by Apollo. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 756.——A Trojan woman. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 26.——The mother of Homer. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 24.——A female servant of Helen, who accompanied her mistress to Troy, when she eloped with Paris. Ovid, Heroides, poem 17, li. 267.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 3, li. 144.
[♦] ‘Thetys’ replaced with ‘Tethys’
Clymeneĭdes, a patronymic given to Phaeton’s sisters, who were daughters of Clymene.
Clymĕnus, a king of Orchomenos, son of Presbon and father of Erginus, Stratius, Arrhon, and Axius. He received a wound from a stone thrown by a Theban, of which he died. His son Erginus, who succeeded him, made war against the Thebans, to revenge his death. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 37.——One of the descendants of Hercules, who built a temple to Minerva of Cydonia. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 21.——A son of Phoroneus. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 35.——A king of Elis. Pausanias.——A son of Œneus king of Calydon.