Camillus
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the dictator
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman general whose declaration of war against the Gauls exemplifies the three justifiable causes of war.
The justifiable causes generally assigned for war are three, defence, indemnity, and punishment, all which are comprised in the declaration of Camillus against the Gauls, enumerating all things, which it is right to defend, to recover, and the encroachment on which it is right to punish.
For there was a majority of the people with Camillus, the dictator.
On Benefits
Roman general and statesman, cited as an example in the objection to Stoic doctrine
Is Camillus a deserter?
2 Camillus she sent into exile, Scipio she let go;
On the Commonwealth
Roman statesman and general who was exiled by his fellow citizens.
For one recalls the exile of Camillus, or the affront to Ahala, or the odium against Nasica, or the expulsion of Laenas, or the condemnation of Opimius, or the flight of Metellus, or the most bitter ruin of Gaius Marius and the slaughter of leading men, or the destruction of those many that followed soon after.
Meditations
Early Roman statesman and general, cited as an example of a once-famous name now archaic.
so too the names of men once much sung are now in a way archaisms — Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus;