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The Camenae
Camenae
Old Italian water-nymphs identified with the Muses; here the keepers of the tradition that named the spot Canens.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.13 native Camena
The Camenae, the old Italian Muses; 'not in my native Camena' means Ovid recited this poem not in Latin but in the Getic tongue he had learned.
- Metamorphoses §14.449 Camenae
Old Italian water-nymphs of prophecy and song, later identified with the Muses; here the keepers of the place-name Canens (modern scholars locate it near the Tiber at Rome).
- Metamorphoses §15.497 the Camenae
The Italian water-nymphs and goddesses of song, Numa's counsellors.