at liberty for her gallant deed, but allowed her to take with her a part of the hostages. Mdlle. Scudéri has a novel on the subject, entitled Clélie, Histoire Romaine.
—Tennyson: The Princess, ii.
Clelia, 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; The Borough (1810).
Clélie , the heroine of a novel so called by Mdlle. Scudéri. (See Clelia.)
Clemanthe, the heroine of Talfourd’s tragedy of Ion (1835).
Clement, one of the attendants of sir Reginal Front de Bœuf (a follower of prince John).—Sir W. Scott: Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).
Clement (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. Everything, indeed, if it comes in the way of his humour.—Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour, iii. 2 (1598).