Proper noun

Singular Livy

Plural -

Livy

1. Titus Livius, a Roman historian

Titus Livius (59 BCE – CE 17), known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BCE through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian family, advising Augustus' grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before CE 14 in a letter to take up the writing of history. Livy and Augustus' wife, Livia, were from the same clan in different locations, although not related by blood.

Titus Livius (around 59 BC - 17 AD), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) through the reign of Augustus.

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• Aetolos Acarnanas Macedonas, eiusdem linguae homines, leues ad tempus ortae causae diiungunt coniunguntque: cum alienigenis, cum barbaris aeternum omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque; natura enim, quae perpetua est, non mutabilibus in diem causis hostes sunt...
  • Translation: The Aitolians, the Akarnanians, the Macedonians, men of the same speech, are united or disunited by trivial causes that arise from time to time; with aliens, with barbarians, all Greeks wage and will wage eternal war; for they are enemies by the will of nature, which is eternal, and not from reasons that change from day to day...
  • Liber XXXI, 29, 15

Histories

• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
  • Praefatio, sec. 4

• We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
  • Praefatio, sec. 9

• This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
  • Praefatio, sec. 10

• Sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea!
  • Translation: And so be damned, whomever shall jump over my walls!
  • Book I, sec. 7
  • Spoken when Romulus slew his brother Remus for jumping over the walls of his encampment (soon to be Rome) in mockery.

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