calo
calo, to call together, summon, convoke
calo2, a servant in the army, soldier’s servant
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- to call, call out, proclaim, call together, summon, convoke; only as t. t. in reference to religious matters; v. Kalendae, and the ancient formulary in Varr. L. L. 6, § 27 Müll.; cf. Macr. S. 1, 15: calata comitia, a kind of comitia held for the purpose of consecrating a priest or a king. Of these, some were curiata, others centuriata, Laelius Felix ap. Gell. 15, 27 sq.: Calata in Capitolium plebe, Macr. S. 1, 15; Quint. 1, 6, 33.—Hence, sarcastically, on account of bribery, calatis granis (instead of comitiis), Cic. Sest. 33, 72 Orell.
- a servant in the army, a soldier’s servant: calones militum servi dicti, qui ligneas clavas gerebant, quae Graece κᾶλα vocant, Paul. ex Fest. pp. 46 and 62 Müll.; Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 1; cf. Non. p. 62, 16; Veg. Mil. 3, 6; Dict. of Antiq.; so Caes. B. G. 6, 36; Liv. 27, 18, 12; 30, 4, 1; Tac. H. 1, 49; 3, 20 fin.; 3, 33; Suet. Calig. 51; id. Galb. 20.—On account of their stupidity: sambucam citius caloni aptaveris alto, Pers. 5, 95.—
- II Transf.
- A Any low servant, drudge, Cic. N. D. 3, 5, 11; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 42; id. S. 1, 2, 44; 1, 6, 103; Sen. Ep. 110, 17.—
- B Acc. to Isidorus, some called the tragic buskins calones, because they were made of willow, Isid. Orig. 19, 34, 6.
ejusdem nefandae militiae [sc. daemonis ] tam ~ones et clientes cum lixarum coetibus ‥ quam satrapae et proceres
†colonum, †armiger [? l. armigerorum ]
indulgent proceres, magnates necne calones
~ones,wudieras
ille ‥ quem †colonem [v. l. †colomem ] apparitorem calamistratum ‥ cernebam
portowre , portitor, gestor, ~o, bajulus
➳ les mss portent cal- et non chal-.
- 1. soldatenknecht;
- 2. stal-, paardenknecht.
- 1. neerlaten, laten hangen;
- 2. neuken.
Vigilium Calonibus interemptum fuisse, quo genere calceamenti ferrati gens montana utitur.Vox nota Festo, eadem notione.
- 1 CAL-, to call together, summon, convoke(only of religious assemblies); hence, a calatis Gaviis, by the assembledgens Gavia.
- a servant in the army, soldier's servant, Cs.: turba calonum, L.—A low servant, drudge: plures calones Pascendi, H.
CALOa slave of the lower kind, usually but not always (cf. Hor. Sat. 1.2, 44, i.. 6, 103; Up. 1.14, 42; Cic. de Nat. Deor. 3.5, 11) applied to a soldier's slave. The derivation given by Festus, s. v., calones militum servi dicti, qui ligneas clavas gerebant, quae Graece κᾶλα vocant, repeated by Servius ad Verg. A. 6.1and others, is manifestly false: the word is contracted from caclo, akin to cacula, used by Plautus (e.g. Trin. 721) in the same meaning and derived in the same way by Festus, with the absurd addition ad tutelam dominorum. Accius, quoted by Fest. p. 146, has the line calones famulique metellique caculaeque. Even under the Republic the number of slaves following a Roman army was large; under the Empire it sometimes exceeded the number of the soldiers. Each legion was followed by its own calones; and to prevent confusion, in case of an attack, they were organized and subjected to military discipline (Joseph. B. J. 3.6; Veget. R. M. 3.6).
The calones, though often mentioned with the lixae (q. v.), must be carefully distinguished from them.
[W.S] [A.S.W]A common slave; often the slave of a soldier. The word is a contraction of caclo, akin to cacula. (See Fest. p. 146.) Even under the Republic the number of slaves following a Roman army was large; under the Empire it sometimes exceeded the number of the soldiers. Each legion was followed by its own calones; and to prevent confusion, in case of an attack, they were organized and subjected to military discipline. See Lixa; Servus.