Clœlia

, a Roman virgin, given, with other maidens, as hostages to Porsonna king of Etruria. She escaped from her confinement, and swam acro the Tiber to Rome. Her unprecedented virtue was rewarded by her countrymen with an equestrian statue in the Via Sacra. Livy , bk. 2 , ch. 13 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 651 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 5 .— Juvenal , satire 8, li. 265 .――A patrician family descended from Clœlius, one of the companions of Æneas. Dionysius of Halicarna us.