There is one peculiar advantage attending this horse; he neither eats, drinks, sleeps, nor wants shoeing....  His name is not Pegasus, nor Bucephalus; nor is it Brilladoro, the name of the steed of Orlando Furioso; neither is it Bayarte, which belonged to Reynaldo de Montalbon; nor Bootes, nor Peritoa, the horses of the sun; but his name is Clavileno the Winged.—­Chap. 4.

CLAYPOLE (Noah), alias “Morris Bolter,” an ill-conditioned charity-boy, who takes down the shutters of Sowerberry’s shop and receives broken meats from Charlotte (Sowerberry’s servant), whom he afterwards marries.—­C.  Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837).

CLAY AND RANDOLPH.  In his Thirty Years’ View, Thomas Hart Benton gives a graphic description of the famous duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph, of Roanoke (April 8, 1826).

After two shots had been exchanged without injury to either, the two statesmen shook hands, Randolph remarking:  “You owe me a coat, Mr. Clay,” a bullet having passed through his; and Mr. Clay answered:  “I am glad the debt is no greater!” (1854).

CLEANTE (2 syl.), brother-in-law of Orgon.  He is distinguished for his genuine piety, and is both high-minded and compassionate.—­Moliere, La Tartuffe (1664).

Cleante (2 Syl.), son of Har’pagon the miser, in love with Mariane (3 syl.).  Harpagon, though 60 years old, wished to marry the same young lady, but Cleante solved the difficulty thus:  He dug up a casket of gold from the garden, hidden under a tree by the miser, and while Harpagon was raving about the loss of his gold, Cleante told him he might take his choice between Mariane and the gold.  The miser preferred the casket, which was restored to him, and Cleante married Mariane.—­Moliere, L’Avar (1667).

Cleante (2 syl.), the lover of Angelique, daughter of Argan the malade imaginaire.  As Argan had promised Angelique in marriage to Thomas Diafoirus, a young surgeon, Cleante carries on his love as a music-master, and though Argan is present, the lovers sing to each other their plans under the guise of an interlude called “Tircis and Philis.”  Ultimately, Argan assents to the marriage of his daughter with Cleante.—­Moliere, Le Malade Imaginaire (1673).

CLEAN’THE (2 syl.), sister of Siphax of Paphos.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Mad Lover (1617).

Cleanthe (3 syl.), the lady beloved by Ion.—­Talfourd, Ion (1835).

CLEAN’THES (3 syl.), son of Leon’ides 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.  Simonides, a young libertine, admired the law, but Cleanthes 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 Cleanthes retired to a wood, where he concealed Leon’ides, 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).