CLAS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Veii, Tanaquil, Tribune
15 Aug 2016
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Marcus furius camillus, the man destined to destroy that city and to save his country, was appointed dictator and named publius cornelius. Laborious was the construction of a tunnel to lead up into the central fortress of the town . The orders were that digging should go on day and night until the tunnel was complete and a way opened into the enemy citadel. attempting to capture veii. For fifteen years military tribunes had been at the head of government; the succession was broken, and lucius lucretius flavus was elected to the consulship with servius sulpicius camerinus as his colleague. Fall of veii = fall of all etruscan city-states happens in 396 bce. The problem with a dictator is that they work while they are away, but they quarrel with the senate when they are in rome. Camillus makes promises to gods praying for victory over veii.
