Crossword-Solution: CLOELIA
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| Clue | Answers |
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| ROMAN hostage girl (legend.) | 1 answer |
| She escaped Porsena by swimming the Tiber. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CLOELIA (5)
The villainy of Sextus, the suicide of his victim, the revolution, the death of the sons of Brutus, the defence of the bridge, Musius burning his hand, Cloelia swimming through Tiber, seem to be all strictly Roman.
They allowed their women to celebrate an annual feast, to commemorate the reconciliation between them and the Sabines, by means of their wives; and they erected an equestrian statue to Cloelia, and a temple to Fortune, in honour of the sex; because the mother and wife of Coriolanus had caused that hero to retire weeping from his native country, when he was irresistible by arms.
Between Rome and Alba there was a ditch, _Fossa Cluilia_ or _Cloelia_, and there must have been a tradition that the Albans had been encamped there; Livy and Dionysius mention that Cluilius, a general of the Albans, had given the ditch its name, having perished there.
But one of the maidens, named Cloelia, had a man's heart, and she persuaded all her fellows to escape from the king's camp and swim across the Tiber.
Idle was his rage, to view How Cocles on the battered bridge withstood, And Cloelia burst her bonds, and singly stemmed the flood.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1947).