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Brewer's: Camillus
five times Dictator of Rome, was falsely accused of embezzlement, and went into voluntary exile; but when the Gauls besieged Rome, he returned and delivered his country.
“Camillus, only vengeful to his foes.”
Thomson: Winter.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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