CLAVILENO 
 
 
further to secure the death of Hamlet, 
Claudius had a cup of poisoned wine pre- 
pared, which he intended to give Hamlet 
when he grew thirsty with playing. The 
queen, drinking of this cup, died of poison, 
and Hamlet, rushing on Claudius, stabbed 
him and cried aloud, "Here, thou incestu- 
ous, murderous Dane. . . . Follow my 
mother! "-Shakespeare, Hamlet (1596). 
  %** In the History of Hamblet, Claudius 
is called "Fengon," a far better name for 
a Dane. 
 
  Claudius, the instrument of Appius the 
decemvir for entrapping Virginia. He 
pretended that Virginia was his slave, 
who had been stolen from him and sold 
to Virginius.---J. S. Knowles, Virginius 
(1820). 
 
   Claudius (Mathias), a German poet born 
at Rheinfeld, and author of the famous 
song called Rheinweinlied (" Rhenish wine 
song"), sung at all convivial feasts of the 
Germans. 
  Claudius, though he sang of flagons, 
    And huge tankards filled with Rhenish, 
  From the fiery blood of dragons 
    Never would his own replenish. 
                Longfellow, Drinking Song. 
 
   Claus (Peter). (See under K.) 
 
   Claus (Santa), a familiar name for St. 
Nicholas, the patron saint of children. 
On Christmas Eve German children have 
presents stowed away in their socks and 
shoes while they are asleep, and the little 
credulous ones suppose that Santa Claus 
or Klaus placed them there. 
  St. Nicholas is said to have supplied three 
  destitute maidens with marriage portions by se- 
  cretly leaving money with their widowed mother, 
  and as his day occurs just before Christmas, he 
  was selected for the gift-giver on Christmas 
  Eve.-Yonge. 
 
 
  "Claverhouse,"     or the Marquis of 
Argyll, a kinsman of Ravenswood, intro- 
duced by Sir W. Scott in The Bride of 
Lammermoor (time, William III.). 
 
  Clatver'house (3 syl.), John  Graham of 
Claverhouse (Viscount Dundee), a relent- 
less Jacobite, so rapacious and profane, so 
violent in temper and obdurate of heart, 
that every Scotchman hates the name. 
He hunted the Covenanters with real vin- 
dictiveness, and is a by-word for barbarity 
and cruelty (1650-1689). 
 
  Clavijo (Don), a cavalier who "could 
touch the guitar to admiration, write 
poetry, dance divinely, and had a fine 
genius for making bird-cages." He mar- 
ried the Princess Antonomesia of Can- 
daya, and was metamorphosed by Malam- 
bru'no into a crocodile of some unknown 
metal. Don Quixote disenchanted him 
"by simply attempting the adventure."- 
Cervantes, Don Quixote, II. iii. 4, 5 (1615). 
 
  Clavilen'o, the wooden horse on which 
Don Quixote got astride in order to disen- 
chant the Infanta Antonoma'sia, her hus- 
band, and the Countess Trifaldi (called the 
"Dolori'da Duefia "). It was "the very 
horse on which Peter of Provence car- 
ried off the fair Magalone, and was con- 
structed  by Merlin."   This horse was 
called Clavileno or wooden Peg, because it 
was governed by a wooden pin in the 
forehead.-Cervantes, Don Qaixote, II. iii. 
4, 5 (1615). 
  There is one peculiar advantage attending 
this horse; he neither eats, drinks, sleeps, nor 
wants shoeing. . . . His name is not Pe- 
gasus, 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. 
 
 
CLAUDIUS 
 
 
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