1. camillus, marcus furius a famous patrician of early Rome; took Veii, a rival town, after a ten years' siege; retired into voluntaryexile at Ardea on account of the envy of his enemies in Rome; recalled from exile, saved Rome from destruction by the Gauls under Brennus, was fivetimes elected dictator, and gained a succession of victories overrivalItalian tribes; died at eighty of the plague, in 365 B.C., lamented by the whole nation, and remembered for generations after as one of the noblest heroic figures in Romanhistory.
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