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2 unusual facts about Camillus


Adam Thom

In February 1836, he published the Anti-Gallic Letters, a collection of texts addressed to Gosford, which he originally signed under the pseudonym of Camillus in the Montreal Herald between September 1835 and January 1836.

Osci

They appointed Lucius Furius Camillus dictator, halted business, drafted an army on the spot and sent it into the field against the Aurunci, but "the war was finished in the very first battle."


Camillus House

Brother Mathias Barrett, founder of the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd, founded Camillus House which continues to be sponsored by the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd under the guidance of a lay president, board of directors, and staff.

Lake Albano

Plutarch reports that in 406 BC the lake surged over the surrounding hills, despite there being no rain nor tributaries into the lake to explain it (Life of Camillus).

Magnus Felix Ennodius

Jacques Sirmond suggested that Ennodius was the son of one Camillus of Arles, whose father was a proconsular and the brother of Magnus, the consul of 460; but Mommaerts and Kelley dismiss Sirmond's identification as untenable.

Roman-Etruscan Wars

Camillus and his colleague P. Valerius Potitus Poplicola received command of this second army and the war against the Etruscans.


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