The Etruscan army, which after the fall of Rome had penetrated into Latium, had its victorious career checked in the first instance before the walls of Aricia by the well-timed intervention of the Cumaeans who had hastened to the succour of the Aricines (248).

We know not how the war ended, nor, in particular, whether Rome even at that time tore up the ruinous and disgraceful peace.

This much only is certain, that on this occasion also the Tuscans were unable to maintain their ground permanently on the left bank of the Tiber.
Soon the Hellenic nation was forced to engage in a still more comprehensive and still more decisive conflict with the barbarians both of the west and of the east.

It was about the time of the Persian wars.

The relation in which the Tyrians stood to the great king led Carthage also to follow in the wake of Persian policy -- there exists a credible tradition even as to an alliance between the Carthaginians and Xerxes--and, along with the Carthaginians, the Etruscans.