Caminacum
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Caminacum was an Arabian town mentioned by Pliny.[1]
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Kamon = Caminacum (Pliny.vi.32).
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Arabia .....Ælius Gallus60 , a member of the Equestrian order, is the sole person who has hitherto carried the Roman arms into these lands, for Caius Cæsar, the son61 of Augustus, only had a distant view of Arabia. In his expedition, Gallus destroyed the following towns, the names of which are not given by the authors who had written before his time, Negrana, Nestum, Nesca, Masugum, Caminacum, Labecia, and Mariva62 above- mentioned, six miles in circumference, as also Caripeta, the furthest point of his expedition.
60 An intimate friend of the geographer Strabo. He was prefect of Egypt during part of the reign of Augustus, and in the years B. C. 24 and 25. Many particulars have been given by Strabo of his expedition against Arabia, in which he completely failed. The heat of the sun, the badness of the water, and the want of the necessaries of life, destroyed the greater part of his army.
61 By adoption, as previously stated.
62 The town of the Calingii, mentioned above.