Roman lexicographer with antiquarian interests, perhaps from the early Augustan period. He wrote about the meaning of Greek words (at least four ordinatorum Graecorum libri) and on Greek loan-words in Lat. (apparently also at least four bks. Verba a Graecis tracta). C. is quoted as a source by Gellius (16,12) and Macrobius (Sat. 3,6,2; 3,20,1). He is quite certainly the same Cloatius, whom Pompeius Festus ( Verrius Flaccus) cites as a specialist in sacred language, together with L. Aelius, probably C.'s source.
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