Camera, a field of Calabria. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 3, li. 582.
[♦]Camerīnum and Camertium, a town of Umbria, very faithful to Rome. The inhabitants were called Camertes. Livy, bk. 9, ch. 36.
[♦] ‘Camernīum’ replaced with ‘Camerīnum’
Camerīnus, a Latin poet who wrote a poem on the taking of Troy by Hercules. Ovid, bk. 4, ex Ponto, poem 16, li. 19.——Some of the family of the Camerini were distinguished for their zeal as citizens, as well as for their abilities as scholars, among whom was Sulpicius, commissioned by the Roman senate to go to Athens, to collect the best of Solon’s laws. Juvenal, satire 7, li. 90.
Camerium, an ancient town of Italy near Rome, taken by Romulus. Plutarch, Romulus.
Camertes, a friend of Turnus killed by Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 562. See: [Camerinum].
Camilia, queen of the Volsci, was daughter of Metabus and Casmilla. She was educated in the woods, inured to the labours of hunting, and fed upon the milk of mares. Her father devoted her, when young, to the service of Diana. When she was declared queen, she marched at the head of an army, and accompanied by three youthful females of equal courage as herself, to assist Turnus against Æneas, where she signalized herself by the numbers that perished by her hand. She was so swift that she could run, or rather fly, over a field of corn without bending the blades, and make her way over the sea without wetting her feet. She died by a wound which she had received from Aruns. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 803; bk. 11, li. 435.
Camilli and Camillæ, the priests instituted by Romulus for the service of the gods.
Camillus Lucius Furius, a celebrated Roman, called a second Romulus, from his services to his country. He was banished by the people, for distributing, contrary to his vow, the spoils he had obtained at Veii. During his exile, Rome was besieged by the Gauls under Brennus. In the midst of their misfortunes, the besieged Romans elected him dictator, and he forgot their ingratitude, and marched to the relief of his country, which he delivered, after it had been for some time in the possession of the enemy. He died in the 80th year of his age, B.C. 365, after he had been five times dictator, once censor, three times interrex, twice a military tribune, and obtained four triumphs. He conquered the Hernici, Volsci, Latini, and Etrurians, and dissuaded his countrymen from their intentions of leaving Rome to reside at Veii. When he besieged Falisci, he rejected, with proper indignation, the offers of a schoolmaster, who had betrayed into his hands the sons of the most worthy citizens. Plutarch, Lives of the Roman Emperors.—Livy, bk. 5.—Florus, bk. 1, ch. 13.—Diodorus, bk. 14.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 825.——A name of Mercury.——An intimate friend of Cicero.
Camīro and Clytia, two daughters of Pandarus of Crete. When their parents were dead, they were left to the care of Venus; who, with the other goddesses, brought them up with tenderness, and asked Jupiter to grant them kind husbands. Jupiter, to punish upon them the crime of their father, who was accessary to the impiety of Tantalus, ordered the harpies to carry them away and deliver them to the furies. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 30.—Homer, Odyssey, bk. 20, li. 66.