 Moderns fault Carthage for failure "to bind her subjects to herself, as Rome did" her Italians.Yet Rome and the Italians held far more in common perhaps than did Carthage and the Berbers.Nonetheless, a modern criticism tells us that the Carthaginians "did themselves a disservice" by failing to promote the common, shared quality of "life in a properly organized city" that inspires loyalty, particularly with regard to the Berbers.