The whole seems to be an imitation of the siege of Troy .-- _Gunne._] [Footnote 166: The passage in the original, in the generality of editions, is read as follows: _ut eam invidium lenire, quam minimo suo privato incommodo publicoque, populo Romano liceret_: i.e.that both himself and the Roman people may get over the evil consequences of the jealousy of the gods with as little detriment as possible to either: _populi Romani_ seems preferable here: i.e.

"that it might be allowed to lighten that jealousy, by the least possible injury to his own private interest, and to the public interests of the Roman people." There were certainly two persons concerned in the _invidia_ and _incommodum_ here, Camillus himself, and the Roman people; to whom respectively the _damnatio_, and _elades captae urbis_, afterwards mentioned, obviously refer.

Some editions read, _invidiam lenire suo privato incommodo, quam minimo publico populi Romani liceret_.

This is the reading adopted by Crevier; i.e.

"to appease the jealousy by his own private loss, rather than the least public loss." This is more in accordance with the account given of Camillus by Plutarch, and contains a sentiment certainly more worthy both of Livy and of Camillus.
Sentiments ascribed by Plutarch to Camillus, will have suo privato incommodo, quam minimo publico P.R., giving him the patriotic wish to render light the odium by his own private loss, _rather than_ the least public loss; or, by his own private loss, but if not, _by_ as small a public loss as possible.