Camenae

American  

[kuh-mee-nee] / kəˈmi ni /

plural noun

Roman Religion.

singular

Camena

1. four wise and prophetic deities or fountain nymphs: Carmenta, Egeria, Antevorta, and Postvorta; later identified with the Greek Muses.

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Camenae British  

/ kəˈmiːniː /

plural noun

1. Roman myth a group of nymphs originally associated with a sacred spring in Rome, later identified with the Greek Muses

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Example Sentences

But when the Greek gods came to Rome, the Camenae were identified with those impractical deities the Muses, who cared only for art and science.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The Camenae began as useful and practical goddesses who cared for springs and wells and cured disease and foretold the future.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

I. ‘Immortales mortales si foret fas flere Flerent divae Camenae Naevium poetam; Itaque postquam est Orci traditus thesauro Obliti sunt Romai loquier lingua Latina.’

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

Evander is illustrious from his Arcadian origin, from his relation to Hercules, from the fame of his mother as one of the Italian Camenae.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

Even the names by which two of the Camenae were known—Postvorta and Antevorta—suggest the prosaic and practical functions which they were supposed to fulfil.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.