person
Marcus Furius Camillus
Camillus
also: M. Furius Camillus, Camillus
The great fourth-century dictator who captured Veii and drove the Gauls from Rome, later honored as a second founder of the city; though once driven into exile, he was recalled. Cicero ranks him among distinguished men whose exile and recall only enhanced their glory.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.90 Marcus Camillus minds this civil war now no more than I, while he was alive, minded the capture of Rome
M. Furius Camillus, the 'second founder' of Rome who recovered the city after the Gallic sack of 390 BC. Cicero argues that the dead Camillus cares nothing for the present civil war, just as the living Camillus could not have grieved at events centuries off.