[Cronos]

There were no Romans--no such thing--everyone was local people.

The Romans slaughtered the Etruscans and settled in Colonies there. Ditto for the south of Italy and after they slaughtered the Gauls they did the same in France. in Spain they mingled with the local.s

[RightWhale]

We know all that. They weren't Romans at the time, but just a few stragglers from Troy who had a little run-in with Carthage and whose wives had just burned their fleet so it is natural they would be a little testy. At the time of the sack of Rome, there were no Romans in Rome. Everybody else was in Rome; the Romans were elsewhere--still are.