CLOANTISUS, cle5-an'-thus, a companion of IEneas, progenitor of the Cluentli at Rome.
CLoniA, cl x. The wife of Lucullus, divorced for her licentiousness. a. The mother of D. Brutus. 3. The wife of Q. Metellus, disgraced by her licentiousness. 4. Lax, lex, de Cy' fire, by the tribune P. Clodius, 59 B.C., to make Cyprus a province, and sell the effects of King Ptolemy of Egypt. 5. Another, de Magistatibus, by the same, 59 B.C., pro hibiting one censor from affixing his stigma to a man unless actually accused and condemned by both censors. 6. Another, by the same, de RelegiOne, 58 a.c., to transfer the priesthood of Cybele from a native of Pessinus Brbtigonus, a Gallogrecian. 7. Another, de PrOzdn'clis, by the same, 58 B.C., giving Syria, Babylon, and Persia to the consul Gabinius, and Achaia, Thessaly, Macedonia, and Greece to Piso, with proconsular power. 8. Another, by the same, 59 a.c., ordaining the usual distribu tion of corn among the people to be gratis instead of, as formerly, at six asses one /piens the bushel. 9. Another, de 7adeclis, by the same, 59 B.C., calling to account such as had executed a Roman citizen without formal trial before the people and all formalities (aimed at Cicero for his treatment of the Catilinarians). CLODIUS, P., al-di-us. z. A Roman, sprung from an illustrious family (the Claudian), and remarkable for his licentiousness, avarice, and ambition ; for his violation of all human and di vine laws, by his incest with his three sisters, and profanation of the Bona Dea mysteries, 62 B.C.,
he was tried, but escaped by corrupting his judges. To gratify his hatred to his prosecutor, Cicero, he descended, by adoption, from a pa trician to a plebeian family, that he might be elected tribune of the plebs, and by the C15'. dia lex(?) he procured Cicero's exile, burnt his house, and exposed his goods for sale, but no one would buy them, and they were soon after re stored to the orator on his recal : he caused Cato (Uticen'sis), who had supported Cicero against the Catilinarians, to be sent with prmtorian power to Cyprus against Ptolemy, in the vain hope that Cato might be unsuccessful and ruin his reputation, while Clodius would in his absence destroy his influence at Rome. Clodius was some time after murdered in a tumult with the gladiators of Milo, whom Cicero defended. a. Licirrus, ir-thz-us, wrote on history of Rome, too B.C. 3. QUIRINALIS, quir-i-nor'-lis, a rhetorician temp. Nero. 4. SEXTUS, sex'-t us, a Sicilian rhetorician, friend and preceptor of M. Antony.
CLmLIA, t. A Roman patrician family, sprung from Clcelius, a companion of /Eneas. 2. A Roman virgin, one of the hostages to the besieging king Porsenna, of Etruria, escaped and swam across the Tiber to Rome : she was re-delivered to Porsenna, but released by him.