boys and girls who ministered in the religious rites and ceremonies of the Romans, and especially those employed in the sacrifices of the Flamen Dialis, or priest of Jupiter. They were required to be free-born, perfect and unblemished in form, and the children of living parents. The origin of the word camillus (or casillus, as it is sometimes written) has been connected with the Samothracian Kabiren-Hermes, Καβηρος and Καβηρος; but its etymology is in fact quite uncertain.