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"description": "cālo (noun M) : κᾶλον, timber for burning or joiner's work; καίω, to burn\n* 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.\n* Transf.\n* 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.\n* Acc. to Isidorus, some called the tragic buskins calones, because they were made of willow, Isid. Orig. 19, 34, 6."
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