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A new system, or, an analysis of antient mythology; wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable; and to reduce the truth to its original purity. In this work is given an ... account of the principal events in the first ages, from the Deluge to the Dispersion; also of the various migrations which ensued / By Jacob Bryant.
- Jacob Bryant
- Date:
- 1807
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A new system, or, an analysis of antient mythology; wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable; and to reduce the truth to its original purity. In this work is given an ... account of the principal events in the first ages, from the Deluge to the Dispersion; also of the various migrations which ensued / By Jacob Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![It is sometimes combined with Cham: whence we have Camillus, and Camulus: under which name the Deity of the Gentile world was in many places worshipped. Camulus and Camillus were in a manner antiquated among the Romans; but their. worship was kept up in other countries. We find in Gruter an inscription * DEO CAMULO: and another, CAMULO. SANCTO. FORTISSIMO. They were both the same Deity, a little diversified ; who was worshipped by the Hetrurians, and esteemed the same as Hermes. “ Tusci Camillum appellant Mercurium. And not only the Deity, but the minister and attendant had the same name: for the priests of old were almost universally deno- minated from the God whom they served, or from his temple. The name appears to have been once very general. *7 Rerum omnium saecrarum ad- ministri Camilli dicebantur. But Plutarch seems to confine the term to one particular office and person. 8 Toy UmNgETEVTO 1) ‘Teen v2 Atos coupidarn moda Asyer bas Kapsaroy, ws Xab TOY “Eguny: BTWS EVEOL TEV EAAnvey Kamiaaov amo rns dvaxovias TeoTnyopevoy, He See MTT Tie ee ee , © Gruter. Inscript. x]. 9, and lvi. 11. 4° Macrobii Saturn. 1. 3. ¢. 8. *” Pomponius Letus. Camilla was in like manner attendant on the Gods. _ Cexlitum Camilla expectata advenis. Ennius in Medo, ex Varrone de Ling. Lat. p- 71. Edit, Dordrechti. 1619, *° Juba apud Plutarchum in Numa, vol. 1. p. 64. “OE. T. C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33282754_0001_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
