Fidenas ne imperio subcrescerent aemulae Roma subvertit, et Faliscos ita oppressit et Veios, et suadere nobis laborat monumentorum veterum fides, ut has civitates aliquando valuisse credamus.
Rome laid Fidenae low, in order that no rivals of her power might grow up, and for that same reason crushed Falerii and Veii; and even trustworthy ancient histories would have difficulty in convincing us that those cities were ever powerful.
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