quam paucis verbis de domicilio futuri summi imperii confirmata est condicio, credo indignum dis existimantibus prosperrimis auspiciis Romanum nomen ortum Veientanae urbis appellatione mutari, inclitaeque victoriae decus modo abiectae urbis ruinis infundi!  Huius tam praeclari operis auctor Camillus, cum esset precatus ut, si cui deorum nimia felicitas populi Romani videretur, eius invidia suo aliquo incommodo satiaretur, subito lapsu decidit.
By how few words was the choice of domicile for the mighty empire of the future confirmed! The gods, I believe, thought it not meet that the name of Rome, arisen under the fairest of auspices, should be exchanged for the appellation of the Veientane city and the glory of a famous victory discharged upon the ruins of a city lately overthrown. The author of that fine achievement, Camillus, had prayed that if the Roman peoples good fortune seemed to any of the gods excessive, the jealousy be satisfied by some mishap to himself; after which he suddenly slipped and fell. The omen was thought to have borne upon the condemnation by which Camillus was later overwhelmed.
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