CAMBI´NA, daughter of the fairy Ag´apê (_3 syl._). She had been trained in magic by her mother, and when Cam´ballo, son of Cambuscan´, had slain two of her brothers and was engaged in deadly combat with the third (named Tri´amond), she appeared in the lists in her chariot drawn by two lions, and brought with her a cup of nepenthe, which had the power of converting hate to love, of producing oblivion of sorrow, and of inspiring the mind with celestial joy. Cambina touched the combatants with her wand and paralyzed them, then giving them the cup to drink, dissolved their animosity, assuaged their pains, and filled them with gladness. The end was that Camballo made Cambina his wife, and Triamond married Can´acê.--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iv. 3 (1596). CAMBUSCAN´, king of Sarra, in the land of Tartary; the model of all royal virtues. At Sarra, in the lond of Tartarie, Ther dwelt a king that werreied Russie, Through which ther died many a doughty man: This noble king was cleped Cambuscan Which in his time was of so great renoun That ther n' as no wher in no regioun, So excellent a lord in alle thing: * * * * * This noble king, this Tartre Cambuscan Hadde two sones by Elfeta his wif, Of which the eldest sone highte Algarsif That other was ycleped Camballo. * * * * * A doughter had this worthy king also That youngest was and highte Canace. Chaucer, _The Squire's Tale_. Milton, in the Penseroso, alludes to the fact that the Squire's Tale was not finished: Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold. CAMBY´SES (3 _syl._), a pompous, ranting character in Preston's tragedy of that name, I must speak in passion, and I will do it in king Cambyses' vein.--Shakespeare, 1 _Henry IV_. act ii. sc. 4 (1597). CAMBY´SES AND SMERDIS. Cambysês king of Persia killed his brother Smerdis from the wild suspicion of a madman, and it is only charity to think that he was really _non compos mentis_. Behold Cambisês and his fatal daye ... While he his brother Mergus cast to slaye, A dreadful thing, his wittes were him bereft. T. Sackville, _A Mirrour for Magistraytes_ ("The Complaynt," 1587). CAMDEO, the god of love in Hindû mythology. CAMIL´LA, the virgin queen of the Volscians, famous for her fleetness of foot. She aided Turnus against Æneas. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, or skims along the main. Pope. _Camilla_, wife of Anselmo of Florence. Anselmo, in order to rejoice in her incorruptible fidelity, induced his friend Lothario to try to corrupt her. This he did, and Camilla was not trial-proof, but fell. Anselmo for a time was kept in the dark, but at the end Camilla eloped with Lothario. Anselmo died of grief, Lothario was slain in battle, and Camilla died in a convent.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iv. 5, 6 ("Fatal Curiosity," 1605).