Frank says, concerning the quarrels, in chap. II, _op. cit._: “Roman tradition preserved in the first book of Livy presents a very circumstantial account of the several battles by which Rome supposedly razed the Latin cities one after another.... Needless to say, if the Latin tribe had lived in such civil discord as the legend assumes, it would quickly have succumbed to the inroads of the mountain tribes.” Thus probably the quarrels between Latin and Etruscan have been overrated. See again, p. 14, for the oriental origin of some intruding people. He says, in a note at the end of the chapter: “Ridgeway, in _Who were the Romans_, 1908, has ably, though not convincingly developed the view that the Patricians were Sabine conquerors. Cuno, _Vorgeschichte Roms_, I, 14, held that they were Etruscans. Fustel de Coulanges, in his well-known work, _La cité antique_, proposed the view that a religious caste system alone could explain the division. Eduard Meyer, the article on the Plebs in _Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften_, and Botsford, _Roman Assemblies_, p. 16, have presented various arguments in favor of the economic theory. See Binder, _Die Plebs_, 1909, for a summary of many other discussions.” Breasted, _Ancient Times_, pp. 495 _seq._, and Sir Harry Johnston, _Views and Reviews_, p. 97, are two who have touched upon these questions. On Etruria see the note to p. 157 : 14. 154 : 11. An allusion to the short stature of the Roman legions of Cæsar in Gaul may be found in Rice Holmes, 2, p. 81. D’Arbois de Jubainville, _Les Celts en Espagne_, XIV, p. 369, says in describing a combat between P. Cornelius Scipio and a Gallic warrior: “Scipio was of very small stature, the Celtiberian warrior with the high stature which in all times in the tales of the Roman historians characterizes the Celtic race; and the beginning of the struggle gave him the advantage.” Taylor, _Origin of the Aryans_, p. 76, says: “The stature of the Celts struck the Romans with astonishment. Cæsar speaks of their _mirifica corpora_ and contrasts the short stature of the Romans with the _magnitudo corporum_ of the Gauls. Strabo, also, speaking of the Coritavi, a British tribe in Lincolnshire, after mentioning their yellow hair, says: ‘To show how tall they are, I saw myself some of their young men at Rome and they were taller by six inches than anyone else in the city.’” See also Elton, _Origins_, p. 240. 154 : 18 _seq._ Nordic Aristocracy in Rome. Tenney Frank, _Race Mixture in the Roman Empire_. But he also makes Gauls and Germans on the same level as other conquered people, as legionaries, etc. See also Giuffrida-Ruggeri, p. 101.