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Cloelia (gens)
The ''gens Cloelia'', originally ''Cluilia'', and occasionally written ''Clouilia'' or ''Cloulia'' was a patrician family at Rome. The ''gens'' was prominent throughout the period of the Republic. The first of the Cloelii to hold the consulship was Quintus Cloelius Siculus, in 498 BC.〔''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor.〕
==Origin of the gens==
The Cluilii were one of the noble families of Alba Longa, where they succeeded the royal house of the Silvii. According to legend, Numitor, the grandfather of Romulus and Remus, was deposed by his brother, Amulius, and his sons were slain. When the princes had grown to manhood, they killed Amulius and restored their grandfather to the throne. As he had no surviving sons, it may be that upon Numitor's death the throne passed to the Cluilii. The last king of Alba Longa, and the only one following Numitor whose name has survived in tradition, was Gaius Cluilius.〔Titus Livius, ''Ab Urbe Condita'', i. 3-5, 22.〕
During his reign, Tullus Hostilius, the third King of Rome (traditionally reigned from 673 to 641 BC), declared his intention to destroy Alba Longa and remove its inhabitants to Rome. Cluilius marched an army to Rome, where according to legend he constructed the ''Fossa Cluilia'', an earthen trench, to fortify his position. During his siege, Cluilius died, and in his place, Mettius Fufetius was appointed dictator. Despite enlisting the help of the Fidenates, Fufetius and the Alban forces were defeated, and their ancient city was destroyed. Its inhabitants were transferred to Rome, where several of the noble families of Alba Longa, including the Cluilii, were enrolled in the senate, and subsequently numbered amongst the patricians.〔Titus Livius, ''Ab Urbe Condita'', i. 22, 23, 26-30.〕〔Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Romaike Archaiologia'', iii. 2-4, 29.〕〔Sextus Pompeius Festus, epitome of Marcus Verrius Flaccus, ''De Verborum Significatu, s.v. Cloeliae Fossae''.〕
In later times, when it became fashionable for Roman families to claim mythological origins, it was said that the gens was descended from Clolius, a companion of Aeneas. From an early date, the Cloelii bore the ''cognomen Siculus'', perhaps referring to the legend that the people of Alba Longa was a mixture of two ancient Italic peoples, the Siculi and the Prisci. Whatever the origin of the family, it may be noted that during the first century of the Republic, two leaders of the Aequi, an Oscan people of central Italy, bore the ''nomen Cloelius''.〔Sextus Pompeius Festus, epitome of Marcus Verrius Flaccus, ''De Verborum Significatu, s.v. Cloelia''.〕〔Titus Livius, ''Ab Urbe Condita'', iii. 25-28, iv. 9, 10.〕〔Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Romaike Archaiologia'', x. 22-24.〕〔''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor.〕
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