CAMERINO (anc. Camerinum)  , a city and episcopal see (since 465, if not sooner; Treia is now combined with it) of the Marches, Italy, in the province of Macerata, 6 m . S. of the railway station of Castelraimondo (to which there is an electric tramway) which is 24 M . W. of Macerata; 2148 ft. above sea-level . Pop . (1901) of town, 4o05; of commune, 12,083 . The cathedral is modern, the older building having fallen in 1799; the church of S . Venanzio suffered similarly, but preserves a portal of the 15th century . The citadel, perhaps constructed from the plans of Leonardo da Vinci, dates from 1503 . Camerino occupies the site of the ancient Camerinum, the inhabitants of which (Camertes Umbri) became allies of the Romans in 310 B.C . (at the time of the attack on the Etruscans in the Ciminian Forest) . On the other hand, the Kap..Epr1ot referred to in the history of the year 295 B.C. are probably the inhabitants of Clusium . Later it appears as a dependent autonomous community with the foedus aequum (Mommsen, Rom .

Staatsrecht, iii . 664) . Two cohorts of Camertes fought with distinction under

Marius against the Cimbri . It was much affected by the conspiracy of Catiline, and is frequently mentioned in the Civil Wars; under the empire it was a municipium . It belonged to ancient Umbria, but was on the borders of Picenum . No ancient buildings are visible, the Roman level lying as much as 30 ft. below the modern . See P . Savini, Scoria della Cilia di Camerino (2nd ed., Camerino, 1895) ; M . Mariani, Intorno agli antichi Camerti Umbri (Camerino, 1900) . (T .