CLEAN'THES (3 _syl_.), son of Leon'idês and husband of Hippolita, noted for his filial piety. The Duke of Epire made a law that all men who had attained the age of 80 should be put to death as useless incumbrances of the commonwealth. Simonidês, a young libertine, admired the law, but Cleanthês looked on it with horror, and determined to save his father from its operation. Accordingly, he gave out that his father was dead, and an ostentatious funeral took place; but Cleanthês retired to a wood, where he concealed Leon'idês, while he and his wife waited on him and administered to his wants.--_The Old Law_ (a comedy of Philip Massinger, T. Middleton, and W. Rowley, 1620). CLEGG _(Holdfast)_, a Puritan mill-wright.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). CLEISH'BOTHAM _(Jededi'ah)_, schoolmaster and parish clerk of Gandercleuch, who employed his assistant teacher to arrange and edit the tales told by the landlord of the Wallace Inn of the same parish. These tales the editor disposed in three series, called by the general title of _The Tales of My Landlord (q.v.)._ (See introduction to _The Black Dwarf_.) Of course the real author is Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). _Mrs. Dorothea Cleishbotham_, wife of the schoolmaster, a perfect Xantippê, and a "sworn sister of the Eumen'idês." CLE'LIA OR CLOE'LIA, a Roman maiden, one of the hostages given to Por'sena. She made her escape from the Etruscan camp by swimming across the Tiber. Being sent back by the Romans, Porsena not only set her 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_. 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. Scudéri. (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).