Rome although frequently based was also cucked often too, but no I'm saying his love of the roman empire and the idea of being the true inheritor's of civilization blinded him to the reality that even back in roman times most Italians were basically worthless. the patrician roman class by ancient lore descended from the diaspora from troy, they were essentially the 32nd flavor of ancient greeks, and the patricians of Rome ultimately were Greco-Italics, in fact there is probably more roman patrician blood in northern euopean genetics than in italy because rome conquered the rest of itally so easily they didn't get a chance to rape the piss out of the region like they did everywhere else in europe.