{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg011.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg011.local001","title":"Κάμιλλος","titleGreek":"Κάμιλλος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1914","volume":"2","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives02plut2/page/94/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. 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Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg011.local001","excerpt":"περὶ δὲ Φουρίου Καμίλλου πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων λεγομένων ἴδιον εἶναι δοκεῖ μάλιστα καὶ παράδοξον, ὅτι πλεῖστα μὲν ἐν ἡγεμονίαις καὶ μέγιστα κατορθώσας, δικτάτωρ δὲ πεντάκις αἱρεθείς, θριαμβεύσας δὲ τετράκις, κτίστης δὲ τῆς Ῥώμης ἀναγραφεὶς δεύτερος, οὐδὲ ἅπαξ ὑπάτευσε. τούτου δʼ αἴτιον ἡ τῆς τότε πολιτείας κατάστασις, ἐκ διαφορᾶς τοῦ δήμου πρὸς τὴν σύγκλητον ὑπάτους μὲν ἐρίσαντος μὴ ἀποδείκνυσθαι, χιλιάρχους δὲ χειροτονοῦντος ἐπὶ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν, ὧν, καίπερ ἀπʼ ἐξουσίας καὶ δυνάμεως ὑπατικῆς ἅπαντα πραττόντων, ἧττον ἦν ἐπαχθὴς ἡ ἀρχὴ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος, τὸ γὰρ ἓξ ἄνδρας, ἀλλὰ μὴ δύο, τοῖς πράγμασιν ἐφιστάναι, παρεμυθεῖτο τοὺς βαρυνομένους τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν. κατὰ τοῦτο δὴ καιροῦ μάλιστα τῇ δόξῃ καὶ τοῖς πράγμασιν ἀκμάσας ὁ Κάμιλλος ὕπατος μὲν οὐκ ἠξίωσεν ἄκοντι τῷ δήμῳ γενέσθαι, καίπερ ἐν τῷ διὰ μέσου δεξαμένης ὑπατικὰς ἀρχαιρεσίας τῆς πολιτείας πολλάκις, ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἄλλαις ἡγεμονίαις πολλαῖς καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 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33","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-33"},{"label":"Chapter 34","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-34"},{"label":"Chapter 35","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-35"},{"label":"Chapter 36","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-36"},{"label":"Chapter 37","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-37"},{"label":"Chapter 38","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-38"},{"label":"Chapter 39","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-39"},{"label":"Chapter 40","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg011.local001/#tlg0007-tlg011-local001-40"},{"label":"Chapter 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