Camilla

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  • Camilla: in Roman mythology. the daughter of Metabus, king of teh Volscii and a warrior virgin who fights against Aeneas. Virgil, in the Aeneid, claims that Camilla once ran so swiftly through the cornfields that a blade of grass burned to ashes. This gave her divine power which enabled her to walk across the seas without wetting her feet.
  • Camilla: a very popular novel (1796) by English author Fanny Burney, a precursor of Romanticism.
  • Greene's Arcadia; or, Menaphon: Camilla's alarum to slumber Euphues in his melancholy cell at Silexedra: a pastoral romance (1589) by English Author Robert Greene → Mamilla