CAMILLI and CAMILLE, in antiquity, boys and girls of ingenuous birth, who ministered in the sacrifices of the gods; and especially those who attended the flamen dialis, or priest of Jupiter. The word seems borrowed.
borrowed from the language of the ancient Hetrurians, where it signified minister, and was changed from camillus. The Tuscan also gave the appellation Camillus to Mercury, in quality of minister of the gods.