Rome seemed particularly suited for her purpose.

In this state, lately founded, where all nobility is recent and the result of merit, there would be room for her husband, a man of courage and activity.

Tatius a Sabine had been king of Rome: Numa had been sent for from Cures to reign there: Ancus was sprung from a Sabine mother, and rested his nobility on the single statue of Numa.

She easily persuades him, as being ambitious of honours, and one to whom Tarquinii was his country only on the mother's side.

Accordingly, removing their effects they set out together for Rome.