in 367. Though patrician in sympathy, he saw the necessity
of making concessions to the plebeians and was instrumental in passing
the Licinian laws. He died of the plague in the eighty-first year of his
age (365). The story of Camillus is no doubt largely traditional. To
this element probably belongs the story of the schoolmaster who, when
Camillas was attacking Falerii (q.v.), attempted to betray the town by
bringing into his camp the sons of some of the principal inhabitants of
the place. Camillus, it is said, had him whipped back into the town by
his pupils, and the Faliscans were so affected by this generosity that
they at once surrendered.

See Livy v. 10, vi. 4; Plutarch, _Camillus_. For the Gallic retreat,
see Polybius ii. 18; T. Mommsen, _Romische Forschungen_, ii. pp.
113-152 (1879).

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

CAMISARDS (from _camisade_, obsolete Fr. for "a night attack," from the
Ital. _camiciata_, formed from _camicia_--Fr. _chemise_--a shirt, from
the fact of a shirt being worn over the armour in order to distinguish
friends from foes), the name given to the peasantry of the Cevennes who,
from 1702 to 1705 and for some years afterwards, carried on an organized
military resistance to the _dragonnades_, or conversion by torture,
death and confiscation of property, by which, in the Huguenot districts
of France, the revocation of the edict of Nantes was attempted to be
enforced. The Camisards were also called Barbets ("water-dogs," a term
also applied to the Waldenses), Vagabonds, Assemblers (_assemblee_ was
the name given to the meeting or conventicle of Huguenots), Fanatics and
the Children of God. They belonged to that romance-speaking people of
Gothic descent whose mystic imagination and independent character made
the south of France the most fertile nursing-ground of medieval heresy
(see CATHARS and ALBIGENSES). At the time of the Reformation the same
causes produced like results. Calvin was warmly welcomed when he
preached at Nimes; Montpellier