In ancient Rome, a camillus (fem. camilla) was an acolyte in various rituals.
If the camillus was a child of the cult's officiant (as often happened), the child had to be free-born and under the age of puberty, and both parents had to be alive.
Camillus was also a cognomen derived from the general term, most famously used by Marcus Furius Camillus and by other members of the gens Furia.
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