The old Etruscan aristocracy was not extinguished: Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, whose name is eponymous with "patron of the arts", was of the noble Aretine Etruscan stock.
Arretium z Mariusom na čelu, je v rimski državljanski vojni in zmago Sulla, postal kolonija v na pol porušenem mestu, kot "Arretium Fidens" (Zvest Arretiumu).