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In Roman folklore, Queen Camilla of the Volsci was the daughter of King Metabus and Casmilla.
In the Aeneid, she helped her ally, King Turnus of the Rutuli, fight Aeneas and the Trojans in the war sparked by the courting of Princess Lavinia. Arruns killed Camilla when she was opportunely distracted by her pursuit of Chloreus.[1] Diana's attendant Opis, at her mistress' behest, avenged Camilla's death by slaying Arruns.[2]
Virgil claimed she was so fast she could run across the sea without getting her feet wet and run across a field of grain without bending any of the plants.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Virgil, 2.1121–1210.
- ^ Virgil, 2.1236–1256.
- ^ Virgil, 7.1094–1103.
[edit] References
- Virgil, The Aeneid: Translated by John Dryden, Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (October 1, 1997). ISBN 0140446273.
- Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women translated by Virginia Brown 2001, pp. 76-78; Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press; ISBN 0-674-01130-9
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