Cloacina
Cloacina, the purifier, a surname of Venus
Clŏācīna, ae, v. Cluacina.
Cloācīna (Cluācīna), ae, f. (v. cluo, ich reinige), die Reinigende, als Beiname der Venus, weil ihre Bildnisse an dem Orte standen, wo die Römer u. Sabiner nach Beendigung des wegen des Jungfrauenraubes geführten Krieges sich mit Myrtenzweigen reinigten, Plaut. Curc. 471. Lact. 1, 20, 11. Min. Fel. 25, 8: Venus Cluacina, Plin. 15, 119: dea Cloacina, Cypr. quod idol. etc. 4. Prud. apoth. 197: ad Cloacinae (sc. aedem), Liv. 3, 48, 5. – Plur., Tert. de pall. 4. p. 940 ed. Oehl.
Clŏācīna (15) ou Clŭācīna, æ, f. (cluo 2), Vénus Cloacine (purificatrice) [surnom de Vénus chez les Sabins] : Pl. Curc. 471 ; Liv. 3, 48, 5 ; Plin. 15, 119.
Cloācīna or Cluācīna ae, f
- 2 CLV-, the purifier, a surname of Venus, L.
Cloacīna
A Roman divinity who presided over sewers (cloacae). More properly, however, the word should be written Cluacina (from cluo= purgo, Plin.xv. 29, 36), being so called because at the end of the war with the Sabines the Romans purified themselves in the vicinity of the statue of Venus with myrtle boughs (Pliny , l. c.). Later, the similarity of spelling caused a confusion with cloaca, cloacina. See Lactant i 20.