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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CAMILLUS and CAMILLA, in See also:

ROMAN

Roman antiquity, originally terms used for freeborn See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children . Later, they were used to denote the attendants on certain priests and priestesses, especially the See also:

FLAMEN (from flare, " to blow up " the altar fire)

flamen dialis and flaminica and the curiones . It was necessary that they should be freeborn and the children of parents still alive (See also:

DION

Dion . Halic. ii . 21) . The name Camillus has been connected with the Cadmilus or Casmilus of the Samothracian mysteries, identified with See also:

Hermes (see CABEIRI) .

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