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75 AD CAMILLUS

445?-365 .

by Plutarch

translated by John Dryden

AMONG the many remarkable things that are related of
Furius Camillus, it seems singular and strange above all,
that he, who continually was in the mands,
and obtained the greatest esses, was five times chosen
dictator, triumphed four times, and was styled a second
founder of Rome, yet never was so much as once consul.
The reason of which was the state and temper of the
commonwealth at that time; for the people, being at
dissension with the senate, refused to return consuls, but
in their stead elected other magistrates, called military
tribunes, who acted, indeed, with full consular power, but
were thought to exercise a less obnoxious amount of

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authority, because it was divided among a larger number;
for to have the management of affairs intrusted to the
hands of six persons rather than two was some satisfaction
to the opponents of oligarchy. This was the condition of
the times when Camillus was in the height of his actions
and glory, and, although the government in the meantime
had often proceeded to consular elections, yet he could
never persuade himself to be consul against the inclination
of the people. In all his other administrations, which were
many and various,he so behaved himself, that, when alone
in authority, he exercised his power as mon, but the
honour of all actions redounded entirely to himself, even
when in mission with others; the reason of the
former was his moderation mand; of the latter, his
great judgment and wisdom, which gave him without
controversy the first place.

The house of the Furii was not, at that time, of any
considerable distinction; he, by his own acts, first raised
himself to honour,serving under Postumius Tubertis,

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dictator, in the great battle against the Aequians and
Volscians. For riding out from the rest of the army, an