Massilia as an Ally of Rome

[Araujo]

wow, I didn't know that Massilia defeated the carthaginians, thanks for the information. but now that you talk about their military system, how was their army? The Phoenicians, even as powerful as they were along the Mediterranean, hadn't a great military system, prefering to a naval, trading business along the Mediterranean coasts. The Greeks were later defeated by the romans, apparently weaker than the Massilian soldiers. As a multicultural city, Massilia should have greeks, phoenicians, etruscans, iberians or gauls, but none of these people defeated the romans. So can someone explain this to me guys?