Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

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