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Goddess of sewers. (Latin, cloaʹca, a sewer)
“Then Cloacina, goddess of the tide,
Whose sable streams beneath the city glide
Indulged the modish flame, the town she roved,
A mortal scavenger she saw she loved.”
Oay Trivia ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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