A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

590 CAMERINUS.
The Arabs, however, did not restore him to liberty,
but carried him to Tarsus in Cilicia for the purpose
of exchanging him for Arab prisoners who had
been taken by the Greeks. At Tarsus, Cameniata
wrote a description of the capture of Thessalonica,
entitled 'Iwodvvov Keptove Ksal ovovKIXE1hiov T70
Kaygevuidrov els T.)v aiiWV TrS OraoreaAovsiKds,
which is commonly called by its Latin title " De
Excidio Thessalonicensi." It is divided into seventy-nine chapters, and is as important for the
plunder of Thessalonica by the Arabs as the work
of Joannes Anagnosta for the sack of the same town
by the Turks in 1430. The Greek text of this
elegant work was first published, with a Latin
translation, by Leo Allatius in his:2VL ncra, 1653 -1658, where it is divided into forty-five sections.
The second edition is by Combefisius, who published it with an improved Latin translation in his
" Historiae Byzantinae Scriptores post Theophanem," Paris, 1685, fol., which forms part of the
Parisian " Corpus Script. Hist. Byzant." Combefisius divided it into seventy-nine chapters. The
third and last edition, in the Bonn Collection, was
published by Em. Bekker together with Theophanes
(continuatus), Symon Magister, and Georgius Monachus, Bonn, 1838, 8vo. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vii.
p. 683; Hanckius, De Script. Hist. Byzcnt. p. 403,
&c.; the 'AAwaLs of loannes Cameniata.) [W.P.]
CAMERI'NUS, the name of an old patrician
family of the Sulpicia gens, which probably derived
its name from the ancient town of Carmeria or Camerium, in Latium. The Camerini frequently held
the highest offices in the state in the early times of
the republic; but after B. c. 345, when Ser. Sulpicius Camerinus Rufus was consul, we do not hear
of them again for upwards of 400 years, till Q.
Sulpicius Camerinus obtained the consulship in
A. D. 9. The family was reckoned one of the
noblest in Rome in the early times of the empire.
(Juv. vii. 90, viii. 38.)
1. SER. SULPICIUs P. F. CAMERINIUS CORNUTUS,
consul B. C. 500 with M'. Tullius Longus in the
tenth year of the republic. Livy says, that nothing memorable took place in that year, but
Dionysius speaks of a formidable conspiracy to restore the Tarquins which was detected and crushed
by Camerinus. After the death of his colleague,
Camerinus held the consulship alone. Dionysius
puts a speech into the mouth of Camerinus respecting a renewal of the league with the Latins in B. c.
496. (Liv. ii. 19; Dionys. v. 52, 55, 57, vi. 20;
Cic. Brut. 16; Zonar. vii. 13.)
2. Q. SULPICIUS CAMERINUS CORNUTUS, consul
B. c. 490 with Sp. Larcius Flavus. He was afterwards one of the embassy sent to intercede with
Coriolanus when the latter was advancing against
Rome. (Dionys. vii. 68, viii. 22.)
3. SER. SULPICIUS SER. F. SER. N. CAMERINUS
CORNUTUS, consul B. c. 461, when the lex Terentillia was brought forward a second time for a reform in the laws. (Liv. iii. 10; Dionys. x. 1;
Died. xi. 84; Plin. H. N. ii. 57.) This law,
however, was successfully resisted by the patricians; but when in B. c. 454 it was resolved to
send three ambassadors into Greece to collect information respecting the laws of the Greek states,
Ser. Camerinus was one of their number, according
to Dionysius (x. 52), though Livy calls him (iii.
31) Publius. The ambassadors remained three
years in Greece, and on their return Ser. Camerinus
was appointed a member of the decemvirate in B. c.

CAMERS.
451. (Liv. iii. 33; Dionys. x. 56.) In B. c. 446
he commanded the cavalry under the consuls T.
Quinctius Capitolinus and Agrippa Furius Medullinus in the great battle against the Volsi and
Aequi fought in that year. (Liv. iii. 70.)
4. P. SUrLPICIUS CAMERINUS. (Liv. iii. 31.)
See No. 3.
5. Q. SULPICIUS SER. F. SER. N. CAMERINUS
CORNUTUS, son or grandson of No. 3, consular
tribune in B. C. 402 and again in 398. (Liv. v. 8,
14; Diod. xiv. 38, 82.)
6. SER. SULPICIUS Q. F. Ser. N. CAMERINUS,
son of No. 5, consul B. C. 393, and military tribune
in 391, in the latter of which years he conducted
the war against the Salpinates, and carried off a
great quantity of booty from their territory. (Liv.
v. 29, 32; Diod. xiv. 99, 107.) He was one of
the three interreges in B. C. 387. (Liv. vi. 5.)
7. C. SULPICIUS CAMERINUS, consular tribune
in B. c. 382, and censor in 380 with Sp. Postumius
Regillensis Albinus. But no census was taken in
this year, as Camerinus resigned his office on the
death of his colleague. (Liv. vi. 22; Diod. xv. 41;
Liv. vi. 27.)
8. SER. SULPICIUS CAMERINUS RUFUS, consul
B. C. 345. (Liv. vii. 28; Died. xvi. 66.)
9. Q. SULPICIUS Q. F. Q. N. CAMERINUS, was
consul in A. D. 9, the birth-year of the emperor
Vespasian. (Suet. Vesp. 3; Plin. H. N. vii. 48.
s. 49.)
10. SULPICIUS CAMERINUS, was proconsul of
Africa together with Pomponius Silvanus, and on
their return to Rome in A. D. 59, they were both accused on account of their extortions in their province,
but were acquitted by the emperor Nero. (Tac. Ann.
xiii. 52.) Soon afterwards, however, Nero put
Camerinus and his son to death, according to Dion
Cassius (lxiii. 18), for no other reason but because
they ventured to make use of the surname Pythicus,
which was hereditary in their family, and which
Nero claimed as an exclusive prerogative for himself. It appears from Pliny (Ep. v. 3), that they
were accused by M. Regulus.
CAMERI'NUS, a Roman poet, contemporary
with Ovid, who sang of the capture of Troy by
Hercules. No portion of this lay has been preserved, nor do we find any allusion to the work or
its author except in a single line of the Epistles
from Pontus. The supposition, that the Excidium
Trojae mentioned by Apuleius (de Orthograph.
~ 16) is the production in question, seems to rest
on no evidence whatever. (Ov. Ep. es. Pont. iv.
16. 20.) [W. R.]
CAMERI'NUS, SCRIBONIA'NUS, the assumed name of a runaway slave, whose real name
was afterwards found out to be Geta. He made
his appearance in the reign of Vitellius, and his
object seems to have been to upset the government
of Vitellius. He pretended to have been obliged
to quit Rome in the time of Nero, and to have
ever since lived concealed in Histria, because he
belonged to the family of the Crassi, who had large
possessions there. He succeeded in assembling
around him the populace, and even some soldiers,
who were misled by him or wished for a revolution. The pretender, however, was seized and
brought before Vitellius; and when his real origin
was discovered, he was executed as a common
slave. (Tac. Hlist. ii. 72.) [L. S.]
CAMERS, the name of two mythical personages
in Virgil. (Aen. x. 562, xii. 224, &c.) [L. S.]