These institutions and precepts were considered by the neighbouring powers rather as marks of cowardice than of wisdom.

The Latins therefore began to make incursions upon his territories, but their success was equal to their justice.

An'cus conquered the Latins, destroyed their cities, removed their inhabitants to Rome, and increased his dominions by the addition of part of theirs.

He quelled also an insurrection of the _Ve'ii_, the _Fiden'ates_, and the _Vol'sci_; and over the Sab'ines he obtained a second triumph.
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But his victories over the enemy were by no means comparable to his works at home, in raising temples, fortifying the city, making a prison for malefactors, and building a sea-port at the mouth of the Ti'ber, called Os'tia, by which he secured to his subjects the trade of that river, and that of the salt-pits adjacent.