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

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Roman antiquity, originally terms used for freeborn
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children . Later, they were used to denote the attendants on certain priests and priestesses, especially the
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flamen dialis and flaminica and the curiones . It was necessary that they should be freeborn and the children of parents still alive (
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Dion . Halic. ii . 21) . The name Camillus has been connected with the Cadmilus or Casmilus of the Samothracian mysteries, identified with
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Hermes (see CABEIRI) .

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