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  • CAMILLUS -- Head down Gere Lock Road in Camillus and you'll find the bridge crossing over to Solvay is closed and it has been closed for 9 years.

    NBC3 - Local News Brandon Roth 2010

  • 'Wasn't there a young man from Rome, called Camillus Aelianus?'

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • By this time the Falerians had discovered the treachery of the schoolmaster, and the city, as was likely, was full of lamentations and cries for their calamity, men and women of worth running in distraction about the walls and gates; when, behold, the boys came whipping their master on, naked and bound, calling Camillus their preserver and god and father.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • This matter the Senate referred to the priests, and the priests, having called Camillus into council, gave this sentence: "There is due to Apollo a tenth of all that before the uttering of the vow belonged to the men of Veii, and afterwards came into the power of the Roman people."

    Stories From Livy Alfred John Church 1870

  • They collected at Veii, and here resolved to recall Camillus from banishment, and appoint him Dictator.

    A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853

  • The Faliscans had just discovered the treachery of their schoolmaster, and, as may be expected, the whole city was filled with mourning at such a calamity, men and women together running in confusion to the gates and walls of the city, when the boys drove in their schoolmaster with blows and insults, calling Camillus their saviour, their father, and their god.

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • About the year 1709 he published his first poem, called Camillus; in vindication, and honour of the earl of Peterborough, who had been general in Spain.

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

  • This fymbol was called Camillus among the Hetrurians,

    The history of the effects of religion on mankind : in countries ancient and modern, barbarous and civilized 1788

  • "Camillus," while it was before the country, and advocated its leading neutrality principles in "The Letters of Pacificus," published by him the previous year.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • Hamilton's reasoning, and the power it must have upon the people, he shouted to Madison to join the lists and do battle against "Camillus," and a smaller champion called "Curtius."

    Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852

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