| Livy kept fidgeting, and I knew she was dying to talk about Haley, but Noelle was made of sterner stuff. |
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| She listened to whatever Sharon said, but only said an occasional uh-huh, so Livy and I couldn't make out what they were talking about. |
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| Apart from his unhistorical approach, Livy has also been attacked for failing to be critical of his sources, particularly Roman annalists. |
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| He took his stories from writers more recondite than Ovid and Livy, the sources for the painters of the Bourbon monarchy and the Napoleonic empire. |
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| But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins. |
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| In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron. |
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| Or it can have wide, sweeping phrases, as in the works of Livy and the speeches of Cicero. |
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| With the rise of Augustus, contemporary Latin authors such as Vergil and Livy also became part of the curriculum. |
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| According to Livy the two peoples participated in a ceremony of union after which they were named Quirites after the Sabine town of Cures. |
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| Livy made reference to and uses Polybius' Histories as source material in his own narrative. |
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| Polybius is mentioned by Cicero and mined for information by Diodorus, Livy, Plutarch and Arrian. |
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| Livy believed that there had been a moral decline in Rome, and he lacked the confidence that Augustus could reverse it. |
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| Livy also used rhetorical elaborations, such as attributing speeches to characters whose speeches could not possibly be known. |
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| From there, he launches into his scathing account of history from where Livy would have left off. |
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| Livy says that the pass was not named after the Carthaginians but after a mountain god. |
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| The Roman historian Livy explains that Poeninus was actually a corruption of Penninus, the name of a deity worshipped by a local tribe. |
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| In 7 AD, Livy was hired to tutor him in history, with the assistance of Sulpicius Flavus. |
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| In his speech on Gallic senators, he uses a version of the founding of Rome identical to that of Livy, his tutor in adolescence. |
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| Along with Maecenas, he stimulated patriotic poems, as Virgil's epic Aeneid and also historiographical works, like those of Livy. |
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| If his flock did any reading at all, they would be more likely to read the epitomists rather than the authors whom we consider first-rate such as Livy, Sallust or Tacitus. |
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| According to Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the front rank was composed of the wealthiest citizens, who were able to purchase the best equipment. |
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| Tacitus, one of the major Latin historians along with Livy and Sallust. |
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| Many other dates and chronologies existed, notably those of Livy, with which the emperor must have been familiar, but he did not forbid their use in unofficial contexts. |
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| According to Pliny and Livy, after the invasion of the Gauls, some of the Etruscans living in the Po Valley sought refuge in the Alps and became known as the Raeti. |
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| Other major works of Imperial times were that of Livy and Tacitus. |
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| Works such as the 'Histories' of Tacitus, the 'Gallic Wars' by Julius Caesar and 'History of Rome' by Livy have been passed down through generations. |
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| In prose, Livy produced a history of the Roman people in 142 books. |
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| Livy adds that it was implausible that Hannibal took such a northerly route, as these high mountain passes would have been inaccessible at the time. |
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| The estimation that 300 senators were proscribed was presented by Appian, although his earlier contemporary Livy asserted that only 130 senators had been proscribed. |
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