Voir le dernier Romain a son dernier soupir,
  Moi seule en etre cause, et mourir de plaisir.

Whitehead has dramatized the subject and called it The Roman Father (1741).

Camille, one of the Parisian demi-monde.  She meets and loves Armand Duval.  Camille is besought by Duval pere to leave her lover, whose prospects are ruined by the liaison.  She quits him, returns to her former life, and dies of consumption in the arms of her lover, who has just found her after a long search.—­A.  Dumas, La Dame aux Camelias.

CAMILLO, a lord in the Sicilian court, and a very good man.  Being commanded by king Leontes to poison Polixenes, instead of doing so he gave him warning, and fled with him to Bohemia.  When Polixenes ordered his son Florizel to abandon Perdita, Camillo persuaded the young lovers to seek refuge in Sicily, and induced Leontes, the king thereof, to protect them.  As soon as Polixenes discovered that Perdita was Leontes’ daughter, he readily consented to the union which before he had forbidden.—­Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale (1604).

CAMIOLA, “the maid of honor,” a lady of great wealth, noble spirit, and great beauty.  She loved Bertoldo (brother of Roberto king of the two Sicilies), and when Bertoldo was taken prisoner at Sienna, paid his ransom.  Bertoldo before his release was taken before Aurelia the duchess of Sienna.  Aurelia fell in love with him, and proposed marriage, an offer which Bertoldo accepted.  The betrothed then went to Palermo to be introduced to the king, when Camiola exposed the conduct of the base young prince.  Roberto was disgusted at his brother, Aurelia rejected him with scorn, and Camiola retired to a nunnery.—­Massinger, The Maid of Honor (1637).

CAMPASPE (3 syl.), mistress of Alexander.  He gave her up to Apelles, who had fallen in love with her while painting her likeness.—­Pliny, Hist. xxxv. 10.

John Lyly produced, in 1583, a drama entitled Cupid and Campaspe, in which is the well-known lyric: 

  Cupid and my Campaspe played
  At cards for kisses:  Cupid paid.

CAMPBELL (Captain), called “Green Colin Campbell,” or Barcaldine (3 syl.).—­Sir W. Scott, The Highland Widow (time, George II.).

Campbell (General), called “Black Colin Campbell,” in the king’s service.  He suffers the papist conspirators to depart unpunished.—­Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.).

Campbell (Sir Duncan), knight of Ardenvohr, in the marquis of Argyll’s army.  He was sent as ambassador to the earl of Montrose.

Lady Mary Campbell, sir Duncan’s wife.

Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchenbreck, an officer in the army of the marquis of Argyll.

Murdoch Campbell, a name assumed by the marquis of Argyll.  Disguised as a servant, he visited Dalgetty and M’Eagh in the dungeon, but the prisoners overmastered him, bound him fast, locked him in the dungeon, and escaped.—­Sir W. Scott, Legend of Montrose (time, Charles I.).