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In Quintus Horatius Flaccus' Satirae or Sermones, liber I, the reading of this word is doubtful: it may either have been cāmus as a punishment device, or Cadmus as a proper noun. Compare for example:
Des Q. Horatius Flaccus Sermonen, vol. I, ed. Hermann Fritzsche, Leipzig, 1875, page 154f.:
„Tune, Syri, Damae, aut Dionysi filius, audes Deicere de saxo civīs aut tradere camo?“
Horace Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, 1942, page 78f.:
"tune, Syri, Damae aut Dionysi filius, audes deicere de saxo civis aut tradere Cadmo?"
"Do you, the son of a Syrus, a Dama, a Dionysius, dare to fling from the rock or to hand over to Cadmus citizens of Rome?"
In Lucius Attius or Accius as cited by Nonius Marcellus, cāmus is interpreted as a punishment device or a necklace. See for example:
Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina, p. 200, line 16f. In: Wallace M. Lindsay ed., Nonii Marcelli de conpendiosa doctrina, vol. I, LL. I–III, Leipzig, 1903, page 294:
Tr. E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, vol. II, 1936, page 426f. (Lucius Accius (or Atticus), Epigoni):
287 Nonius, 200, 16: ' Collus' masculino . . .– Alcmeo . . . Quid cesso ire ad eam? Em praesto est: camo collum graven!
287 Alcmaeon sees Eriphyle decked with the necklace with which she was bribed: Nonius: 'Collus' in the masculine . . .– Alcmaeon I'll not Delay to approach her. See! She is at hand. How heavy with the neck-band is her throat!