Vie de Camille (Paperback or Softback)
Plutarque
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Add to basketVie de Camille.
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" Quant à Furius Camillus, entre toutes les grandes choses qu'on rapporte de lui, ce qu'il y a de vraiment singulier et d'étrange, c'est qu'un homme qui avait tant de fois commandé les armées et remporté des victoires éclatantes, qui exerça cinq fois la dictature, qui obtint quatre triomphes, et qui reçut le titre de second fondateur de Rome, n'ait pas été une seule fois consul. Il en faut chercher la cause dans les circonstances politiques. C'était alors le temps des discussions du sénat et du peuple. Le peuple s'opposait à l'élection des consuls : et il nommait, pour gouverner à leur place, des tribuns qui exerçaient, dans toute leur plénitude, la puissance et l'autorité consulaires, mais dont le pouvoir était moins odieux, à cause de leur nombre. C'était une consolation, pour ceux qui n'aimaient pas l'oligarchie, que de voir, à la tête des affaires, six personnes au lieu de deux. Camille, qui était alors dans toute la fleur de sa gloire, et qui se signalait par ses exploits, ne voulut point devenir consul contre le gré du peuple, bien qu'on eût tenu plusieurs fois, à Rome, dans l'intervalle, les comices consulaires. Quant aux autres magistratures, il en obtint une foule, et dans tous les genres : et il s'y comporta de telle façon, que l'autorité, même lorsqu'il commandait seul, lui fût commune avec d'autres, tandis que la gloire lui restait en propre, alors même qu'il avait des collègues. C'était, d'une part, l'effet de sa modération : il voulait exercer le pouvoir sans exciter l'envie : et de l'autre, c'était le fruit de sa prudence, qualité qui lui donnait une incontestable supériorité..."
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