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Marcus Furius Camillus (ca. 446- 365 BC) was a Roman soldier and statesman of patrician descent. According to Livy, he was censor in 403 BC, triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of Rome.

When accused of having unfairly distributed the spoil taken at Veii, which he captured after a ten year long siege, he went into voluntary exile at Ardea. Along with this complaint against him was added his patrician haughtiness and his triumphal entry into Rome in a chariot drawn by white horses which, to many Romans, recalled the days of the kings. Subsequently the Romans, when besieged in the Capitol by the Gauls after the Battle of the Allia, created him dictator. After assembling the Roman forces in allied towns as well as the remnants of the army at Veii, Livy's traditional sources reported that he drove the Gauls from the streets of Rome and subsequently defeated them completely just south of the city.

He dissuaded the Romans, disheartened by the devastation wrought by the Gauls, from migrating to Veii, and persuaded them to rebuild the city. He afterwards fought successfully against the Aequi, Volsci and Etruscans, and repelled a fresh invasion of the Gauls in 367 BC. Though patrician in sympathy, he saw the necessity of making concessions to the plebeians and was instrumental in passing the Licinian laws. He died of the plague in his eighty-first year (365 BC).

The story of Camillus is no doubt largely apocryphal. To this element probably belongs the story of the schoolmaster who, when Camillus was attacking Falerii, attempted to betray the town by bringing into Camillus's camp the sons of some of the principal inhabitants of the place. 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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Furius was the nomen of the ancient Roman gens Furia, an old family of Tusculan origin.
  • Furius, Pontifex Maximus 449 BC-431 BC
  • Aulus Furius Antias, poet ca 100 BC
  • Marcus Maecius Furius Baburius Caecilianus Placidus, consul 343

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patrician" originally referred to a group of elite families in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high court officials.
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Titus Livius (traditionally 59 BC–AD 17[1]), known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental History of Rome, Ab Urbe condita
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For other uses, see Censor.


A Censor was a magistrate of high rank in the ancient Roman Republic. This position (called censura) was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the
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A Roman triumph (, Old Latin triumpus, attested as the exclamation TRIVMPE
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Dictator was a political office of the Roman Republic. A legal innovation of the Roman Republic, the dictator (Latin for "one who dictates (orders)") — officially known as the Magister Populi ("Master of the People"), the Praetor Maximus
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Comune di Roma

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Motto: "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (SPQR)   (Latin)
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Battle of Veii, also known as the Siege of Veii[1] is a battle of ancient Rome, approximately dated at 396 BC. The main source about it is Livy's Ab Urbe Condita.
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Country Italy
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Province Rome
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one of the seven hills of Rome
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il Campidoglio or Monte Capitolino
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Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was the name given, in ancient times, to the region of Western Europe comprising present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of
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Battle of the Allia was a battle of the first Gallic invasion of Italy. The battle was fought near the Allia river: the defeat of the Roman army opened the route for the Gauls to sack Rome. It was fought in 390/387 BCE.
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Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was the name given, in ancient times, to the region of Western Europe comprising present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of
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The Aequi were an ancient people of north-east Latium, in central Italy, whose name occurs constantly in Livy's first decade as hostile to Rome in the first three centuries of the city's existence.
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The Volsci were an ancient Italic people, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. They then inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bounded by the Aurunci and Samnites on the south, the Hernici on the east, and
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Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy and Corsica whom the ancient Romans called Etrusci or Tusci.
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In Ancient Rome, the plebs were the general body of Roman citizens, distinct from the privileged class of the patricians. A member of the plebs was known as a plebeian (Latin: plebeius).
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Lex Licinia Sextia was a Roman law passed in 367 BCE and took effect in 366 BCE. It restored the consulship, allegedly reserved one of the two consular positions for a plebeian (though subsequent years did see two patricians as consul), and introduced new limits on the possession
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Bubonic Plague
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Yersinia pestis'' seen at 2000x magnification with a fluorescent label. This bacterium, carried and spread by fleas, is the cause of the various forms of the disease plague.
ICD-10 A 20.
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Falerii (now Civita Castellana) was one of the twelve chief cities of Etruria, situated about one mile west of the ancient Via Flaminia, c. 50 km north of Rome.

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Titus Livius (traditionally 59 BC–AD 17[1]), known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental History of Rome, Ab Urbe condita
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Plutarch
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Parallel Lives, Amyot translation, 1565
Born: Circa 46 AD
Chaeronea, Boeotia
Died: Circa 120 AD
Delphi, Phocis
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Polybius (ca. 203–120 BC, Greek Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world famous for his book called The Histories or The Rise of the Roman Empire,
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Mommsen is a surname, and may refer to one of a family of German historians, see Mommsen family:
  • Theodor Mommsen
  • Tycho Mommsen
  • Wilhelm Mommsen
  • Theodor Ernst Mommsen
  • Hans Mommsen
  • Wolfgang Mommsen

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Plutarch
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Parallel Lives, Amyot translation, 1565
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Chaeronea, Boeotia
Died: Circa 120 AD
Delphi, Phocis
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