. Calypso- Trom a vase painting.) allow him to continue his journey homewards.(Od. v. 28, vii. 259.) Camarilla (Kafidpiva: : Came-rina), a town on the S. coast of Sicily, at themouth of the Hipparis, founded by Syracuse, 599. It attempted to throw off the yoke ofSyracuse and was destroyed 552; recolo-nised in 495, and destroyed by Gelon ten yearslater; a third time colonised 461; sufferedseverely from the ravages of the Carthaginians. Camarina In head of Heracles in lionB skin, and legend ha^j/n-v«f
. Calypso- Trom a vase painting.) allow him to continue his journey homewards.(Od. v. 28, vii. 259.) Camarilla (Kafidpiva: : Came-rina), a town on the S. coast of Sicily, at themouth of the Hipparis, founded by Syracuse, 599. It attempted to throw off the yoke ofSyracuse and was destroyed 552; recolo-nised in 495, and destroyed by Gelon ten yearslater; a third time colonised 461; sufferedseverely from the ravages of the Carthaginians. Camarina In head of Heracles in lionB skin, and legend ha^j/n-v«fiu» ; rcc, Athene In a chariot crowned by Victory. under Himilco 405, and in the wars of Agatho-cles (Hdt. vii. 154; Thuc. vi. 5; Pind. Ol. v.;Diod. xiii. 108-114, xxiii. 1-9). In the 1stPunic war it was taken by the Romans, andmost of the inhabitants sold as slaves (Polyb. ; Strab. p. 272i. Scarcely any vestiges of theancient town remain. In the neighbourhoodwas a marsh, which the inhabitants drainedcontrary to the command of an oracle, and thusopened away to their enemies to take the town :hence arose the proverb /ti; \tlvei Kafxapivav,ne moveas Camarinam (cf. Verg. Aen. iii. 700). Cambodunum i Slack), a town in Britainbetween Eboracum (York) and Mancunium(Manchester). Camboritum (prob. Cambridge or Gran-cheater), a town in Britain on the road fromCamulodunum (Colchester) to Lindum (Lin-coln). Cambuni Montes, the mountains which sepa-rate Macedonia and Thessaly. Cambysene [KanQuartur,), a district of
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