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n. (given name female from=Latin).
Wikipedia
Clelia may refer to:
- Clélie, an algebraic curve on the surface of a sphere
- Clelia (snake), the Mussurana, species of oviparous colubrid snakes
- The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution submersible used to extract the bell from the shipwreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
People with the given name Clelia:
- Clelia (given name)
Clelia is a feminine given name derived from the Latin Cloelia, associated with the root of the verb cluere "to have renown, fame," and the name therefore means "illustrious, famous." In Roman legend Cloelia was a maiden who was given to an Etruscan invader as a hostage, but managed to escape by swimming across the Tiber.
Usage examples of "clelia".
Her lively and pleasant Manners - Her Reading and Decision - Her Intercourse with different Classes of Society - Her kind of Character - The favoured Lover - Her Management of him: his of her - After one Period, Clelia with an Attorney.
Then as a matron Clelia taught a school, But nature gave not talents fit for rule: Yet now, though marks of wasting years were seen, Some touch of sorrow, some attack of spleen.
He had no idle retrospective whim, Till she was his, her deeds concern’d not him: So far was well, - but Clelia thought not fit (In all the Griffin needed) to submit: Gaily to dress and in the bar preside, Soothed the poor spirit of degraded pride.
For now she said, “They’ll miss th’ endearing friend, And I’ll be there the soften’d heart to bend:” And true a part was done as Clelia plann’d - The heart was soften’d, but she miss’d the hand.
Cassander, and Clelia, till she is half bewildered, and holds forth upon the virtues of these famous heroines, till I am frequently upon the point of exclaiming, "Ah, my dear, it is all very fine.