Livy in a sentence

After a few hundred years of Livy being studied by the youth of every Western population, moderns have developed their own views of Livy and his place in the ancient world, which were not current in ancient times.

Julius Obsequens used Livy, or a source with access to Livy, to compose his De Prodigiis, an account of supernatural events in Rome, from the consulship of Scipio and Laelius to that of Paulus Fabius and Quintus Aelius.

Livy himself was married and had at least one daughter and one son.sfn Livy’s most famous work was his history of Rome.

Certainly not alone in his worries, Tacitus agreed with Livy, seeing in the Germanic peoples of Europe the hope of regeneration and rebirth.

Bulkachuwa who announced the tribunal’s decision, said she was asked to save herself by the legal team led by Livy Uzoukwu (SAN).

CJN to Dr Livy Uzokwu, “If you want time to make up your mind, we will give you time.

The choice conglomerate of Alex Behler, Ike Clateman, Jordan Dawson, Dmitri Obergfell, Livy Onalee, Snyder, Trash and Adrian Wright speak up on what’s been driving them crazy.

Citrus Circuits driver and programmer Livy Taylor, left, drives the team’s robot during the Utah regional competition last weekend as lead technical mentor Michael Corsetto looks on.

According to Livy, the land occupied by Hannibal's army outside Rome in 211 BC was sold at the very time of its occupation and for the same price.

As a result, standard information in a standard rendition is used, which gives the impression of a standard set of dates for Livy.

As Livy tells the story, omens ( prodigia ) in the form of a rain of stones occurred on the Alban Mount because the deported Albans had disregarded their ancestral rites linked to the sanctuary of Jupiter.

Because he was writing under the emperor Augustus, Livy’s history emphasizes the great triumphs of Rome. citation.

Because Livy was writing about events that had occurred hundreds of years earlier, the value of his history was questionable, although many Romans came to believe what he wrote to be the true history of Rome’s foundation. citation.

B.O. Foster, "Introduction," in Livy, Books I and II, The Loeb Classical Library (New York, 1919), x. The city became so powerful that it was reportedly able to raise two hundred thousand fighting men.

B.O. Foster, "Introduction," in Livy, Books I and II, The Loeb Classical Library (New York, 1919), xxiii.

Cicero, Brutus, 62. See also Livy, 8, 40. Beard, 79, notes at least one ancient case of what seems blatant fabrication, in which two ancestral triumphs became three.

Claud. 4. In 7 AD, Livy was hired to tutor him in history, with the assistance of Sulpicius Flavus.

Despite this, no plebeian censor performed the solemn purification of the people (the "lustrum"; Livy Periochae 13) until 280 BC.

Elsewhere writers report them as something remarkable, but Livy and Vituvius refer to them in Rome.

Firstly, particularly in the Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli is unusual in the positive side he sometimes seems to describe in factionalism in republics.