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This article furnishes an analysis of some relevant passages in Livy, Vergil and Ovid, in which the historiographical sources concerning the republican hero Marcus Furius Camillus are used, either explicitly or implicitly. The fashioning of Camillus in Livy’s Ab Urbe condita as a saviour of the nation contains projections from Livy’s own time and suggests an identification with the emperor Augustus. Both Vergil and Ovid appear to have drawn on Livy’s treatment of Camillus, but, while in Vergil Camillus seems to mirror the princeps, Ovid apparently juxtaposes both statesmen.
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