part of the hostages. Mdlle. Scuderi has a novel on the subject,
entitled _Clelie, Histoire Romaine_.

Our statues--not those that men desire--
Sleek odalisques _[Turkish slaves_] ... but
The Carian Artemisia ... _[See Artemisia_.]
Clelia, Cornelia ... and the Roman brows
Of Agrippina.

Tennyson, _The Princess_, ii.

_Cle'lia_, a vain, frivolous female butterfly, with a smattering of
everything. In youth she was a coquette; and when youth was passed,
tried sundry means to earn a living, but without success.--Crabbe,
_Borough_ (1810).

CLELIE (2 _syl_.), the heroine of a novel so called by Mdlle. Scuderi.
(See CLELIA.)

CLEMENT, one of the attendants of Sir Reginald Front de Boeuf (a
follower of Prince John).--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.).

_Clem'ent (Justice)_, a man quite able to discern between fun and
crime. Although he had the weakness "of justices' justice." he had not
the weakness of ignorant vulgarity.

_Knowell_. They say he will commit a man for taking the wall of his
horse.

_Wellbred_. Ay, or for wearing his cloak on one shoulder, or serving
God. Anything, indeed, if it comes in the way of his humor.--B.
Jonson, _Every Man in His Humor_, iii. 2 (1598).

CLEMENTI'NA _(The Lady_), an amiable, delicate, beautiful,
accomplished, but unfortunate woman, deeply in love with Sir Charles
Grandison. Sir Charles married Harriet Byron.--S. Richardson, _The
History of Sir Charles Grandison_ (1753).

Cle'ofas (_Don_), the hero of a novel by Lesage, entitled _Le Diable
Boiteux_ (_The Devil on Two Sticks_). A fiery young Spaniard, proud,
high-spirited and revengeful; noted for gallantry but not without
generous sentiment. Asmode'us (4 _syl_.) shows him what is going on in
private families by unroofing the houses (1707).

CLEOM'BROTUS or Ambracio'ta of Ambrac'ia, (in Epirus). Having read
Plato's book on the soul's immortality and happiness in another life,
he was so ravished with the description that he leaped into the sea
that he might die and enjoy Plato's elysium.

He who to enjoy
Plato's elysium leaped into the sea,
Cleombrotus.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iii. 471, etc. (1665).

CLEOM'ENES (4 _syl_.), the hero and title of a drama by Dryden (1692).
As Dryden came out of the theatre a young fop of fashion said to him:
"If I had been left alone with a young beauty, I would not have spent
my time like your Spartan hero." "Perhaps not," said the poet, "but
you are not my he