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See also: Roman soldier and statesman, of patrician descent, censor in 403 B.C
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He triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of See also: Rome
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When accused of having unfairly distributed the spoil taken at See also: Veii, which was captured by him after a ten years' siege, he went into voluntary exile at See also: Ardea
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The real cause of complaint against him was no doubt his patrician haughtiness and his triumphal entry into Rome in a chariot See also: drawn by See also: white horses
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Subsequently the
See also: Romans, when besieged in the Capitol by the Gauls, created him dictator; he completely defeated the enemy (but see See also: BRENNUS and RoME: See also: History, ii., " The Republic ") and drove them from Roman territory
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He dissuaded the Romans, disheartened by the devastation wrought by the Gauls, from migrating to Veii, and induced them to rebuild the city
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He afterwards fought success-fully against the See also: Aequi, See also: Volsci and Etruscans, and repelled a fresh invasion of the Gauls in 367
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Though patrician in sympathy, he saw the See also: necessity of making concessions to the plebeians and was instrumental in passing the Licinian See also: laws
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He died of the plague in the eighty-first See also: year of his age (365)
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The See also: story of See also: Camillus is no doubt largely traditional
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To this See also: element prob-ably belongs the story of the schoolmaster who, when Camillus was attacking Falerii (q.v.), attempted to betray the See also: town by bringing into his See also: camp the sons of some of the See also: principal inhabit-ants of the place
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Camillus, it is said, had him whipped back into the town by his pupils, and the Faliscans were so affected by this generosity that they at once surrendered
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See See also: Livy v. to, vi
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4; Plutarch, Camillus
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For the Gallic retreat, see See also: Polybius ii
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18 ; T
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See also: Mommsen, Rdmische Forschungen, ii. pp
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113-152 (1879)
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