This king having conquered the Latins, admitted them to the rights of citizens of Rome.

He added to the city the Aventine and Caelian hills; he distributed the lands he had taken in war; he bestowed on the public all the maritime forests he had acquired; and he built the city Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber, and colonized it.

When he had thus reigned twenty-three years, he died.
Then said Laelius: Doubtless this king deserves our praises, but the Roman history is obscure.

We possess, indeed, the name of this monarch's mother, but we know nothing of his father.
It is so, said Scipio; but in those ages little more than the names of the kings were recorded.
XIX.

For the first time at this period, Rome appears to have become more learned by the study of foreign literature; for it was no longer a little rivulet, flowing from Greece towards the walls of our city, but an overflowing river of Grecian sciences and arts.