Claudius; see [Appius] and [Centumalus] and [Pulcher].
Cleombrotus, son of Pausanias, king of Sparta, fell at Leuctra (371), [i, 84].
Cleomenes; see note to [i, 33].
[Clodius]; Publius Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's inveterate enemy, one of the most turbulent and corrupt characters of Rome, guilty of mutiny in the army, bribery in the courts, profligacy in his public and private life; secured Cicero's banishment; hired gladiators to force his own election to the praetorship, but was killed in a broil with Milo's rival gang of ruffians, [ii, 58].
[Cloelia], a Roman girl sent as a hostage to Porsena; she made her escape by swimming the Tiber, was sent back, but restored by the king with rewards for her courage, ([i, 61]).
Clytaemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus, wife of Agamemnon, paramour of Aegisthus, with whom she murdered her husband on his return from Troy; she was in turn slain by her son Orestes. Subject of a tragedy by Accius, [i, 114].
Cocles, Horatius, the hero who with two others kept the bridge against Porsena and Tarquin, [i, 61].
Collatinus, Lucius Tarquinius, husband of Lucretia, associate of Brutus in driving out the Tarquins and his colleague in the first consulship (509), [iii, 40].
Comedy; see [Old Comedy].
Concealment, of guilt, [iii, 37-39].