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She made him tell her again how Fréjus was Claustra Gallæ to Cæsar, and how it was the "Caput" for this part of the wonderful Via Aurelia, which started at Rome, never ending until it came to Arles. "Why, we've been to Rome, and we're going to Arles," she exclaimed. "We can tell people we've been over the whole of the Via Aurelia, can't we?
Cloister, from the Latin, Claustra, that which closes or shuts, an inclosure; hence, a place of religious retirement, a monastery. One who dwells alone apart from society, or with but few companions. Not used of those who dwell in cloisters. Monastery, comes from the same source as monk. Commonly applied to a house used exclusively by monks.
Aen. 3, 411: Angusti rarescent claustra Pelori. Chattos suos. As if the Chatti were the children of the Forest, and the Forest emphatically their country. Passow. Prosequitur, deponit. Begins, continues, and ends with the Chatti. Poetical==is coextensive with. Duriora, sc. solito, or his, cf. Gr. 256, 9. Stricti, sinewy, strong, which has the same root as stringo.
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