Camillas, Marcus Furius

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Camillas, Marcus Furius ( ?-365 B. C.), a Roman patrician and consular tribune. During the Veientine War he was made dictator. He captured the city of Veii in 396 B. C. after ten years of resistance on the part of the town. In 394 B. C. Camillus was again elected consular tribune, and by an act of kindness secured the unconditional surrender of the Falerii. He lost favor with the Roman people at this time, and fled to the retirement of Ardea. After the destruction of the whole of Rome, except the capitol, by the Gauls, he was recalled and again made dictator. He expelled the invaders, rebuilt Rome and achieved new victories. In 368 B. C. Camillus was elected dictator for the fourth time, and abdicated almost at once. But when war with the Gauls again broke out he accepted a fifth dictatorship, though 80 years old, defeated the enemies of Rome, made peace between the patricians and plebeians, erected a temple to Concord and retired.