 Camillus was hailed by his troops as another Romulus, father of his country 'Pater Patriae' and second founder of Rome.Livy says that the Senones besieging the Capitoline Hill were afflicted with an illness and thus were in a weakened state when they took the ransom for Rome.This is plausible as dysentery and other sanitation issues have incapacitated and killed large numbers of combat soldiers up until and including modern times.