d slain two of her brothers and was engaged in deadly combat with
the third (named Triamond), she appeared in the lists in her chariot
drawn by two lions, and brought with her a cup of nepenthe, which had
the power of converting hate to love, of producing oblivion of sorrow,
and of inspiring the mind with celestial joy. Cambina touched the
combatants with her wand and paralyzed them, then giving them the cup
to drink, dissolved their animosity, assuaged their pains, and filled
them with gladness. The end was that Camballo made Cambina his wife,
and Triamond married Canace.--Spenser, _Faery Queen_, iv. 3 (1596).

CAMBUSCAN, king of Sarra, in the land of Tartary; the model of all
royal virtues.

At Sarra, in the lond of Tartarie,
Ther dwelt a king that werreied Russie,
Through which ther died many a doughty man:
This noble king was cleped Cambuscan
Which in his time was of so great renoun
That ther n' as no wher in no regioun,
So excellent a lord in alle thing:

* * * * *
This noble king, this Tartre Cambuscan
Hadde two sones by Elfeta his wif,
Of which the eldest sone highte Algarsif
That other was ycleped Camballo.

* * * * *
A doughter had this worthy king also
That youngest was and highte Canace.
Chaucer, _The Squire's Tale_.

Milton, in the Penseroso, alludes to the fact that the Squire's Tale
was not finished:

Or call up him that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold.

CAMBYSES (3 _syl._), a pompous, ranting character in Preston's
tragedy of that name,

I must speak in passion, and I will do it in
king Cambyses' vein.--Shakespeare, 1 _Henry IV_.
act ii. sc. 4 (1597).

CAMBYSES AND SMERDIS. Cambyses king of Persia killed his brother
Smerdis from the wild suspicion of a madman, and it is only charity to
think that he was really _non compos mentis_.

Behold Cambises and his fatal daye ...
While he his brother Mergus cast to slaye,
A dreadful thing, his wittes were him bereft.
T. Sackville, _A Mirrour for Magistraytes_ ("The
Complaynt," 1587).

CAMDEO, the god of love in Hindu mythology.

CAMILLA, the virgin queen of the Volscians, famous for her fleetness
of foot. She aided Turnus against AEneas.

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, or skims along the main.
Pope.

_Camilla_, wife of Anselmo of Florence. Anselmo, in order to rejoic