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