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Now before this time the Romans called their priests
‘flamines,’ from the close-fitting
‘piloi,’ or caps, which they wear upon their heads, and which have the longer name of
‘pilamenai,’ as we are told, there being more Greek words mingled with the Latin at that time than now.1 Thus also the name
‘laena,’ which the Romans give to the priestly mantle, Juba says is the same as the Greek
‘chlaina’; and that the name Camillus, which the Romans give to the boy with both parents living who attends upon the priest of Jupiter, is the same as that which some of the Greeks give to Hermes, from his office of attendant.
1 Cf. Romulus, xv. 3. Plutarch does not hesitate to derive the Latin ‘flamines’ from the doubtful Greek ‘pilamanei.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.
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