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materials (such as the writings of Livy) have caused the term to become ... is immortalized in the writings of Livy, which simply accepted the ...

Paterculus (1522), works on Tacitus (1519), Livy (1522), and a nine-volume ... Eusebius of Caesaria, Seneca, Tacitus, and Livy, he wrote prefaces for the ...

all except Andros, Paros and Cythnos.Livy, [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah ... to go to Rhodes after speaking with Ptolemy.Livy, [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah ...

introduced Twain to Olivia Langdon (Livy), who came from a prosperous ... Livy's wealthy father helped the young couple to establish residence ...

Correspondingly, in ancient Rome, Livy referred to the caduceator ... In ancient Rome, Livy refers to the caduceator who negotiated peace ...

work, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy, deserves to be better known ... of the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy (Discorsi sopra la prima deca ...

She was found guilty of unchastity and buried alive.Livy, [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy08.html History of Rome.] Retrieved July 23, 2008 ...

Pontificum) which he directed. According to Livy, after the overthrow of the ... is to be found in remarks by Cicero, Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ...

by the Carthaginian government. Titus Livy, a Roman scholar, gives a ... death is a matter of controversy. If, as Livy seems to imply, it was 183 ...

land that could be owned by any one family.Livy, Rome and Italy: Books VI ... * Livy. Rome and Italy: Books VI-X of the History of Rome from its ...

is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus. His digressions ... refer to Sallust and allusion to Tacitus, Livy, and Herodotus can be identified ...

of excess. As described by the Roman historian Livy: When conducted ... * Walsh, P. G. "Making a Drama out of a Crisis: Livy on the Bacchanalia ...

rights. Late Roman historians such as Livy (59 B.C.E. – 17 C.E.) vaguely ... translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt as Livy, The Early History of Rome ...

favorably to pagan historians such as Livy or Tacitus. The author exhibits a personal interest in the events, but presents them as accurately ...

cited by writers of his era, including Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Strabo (who called Posidonius "the most learned of all philosophers of my time ...

Livy, History of Rome, 29.10-1,1 .14 (c. 10 C.E.). In 103 B.C.E., Battakes, a high priest of Cybele, journeyed to Rome to announce a prediction ...

and its members in the speech of Menenius Agrippa (Livy ii. 32), and the several that occur in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Late Antiquity, Martianus ...

in toga candida' 90‑91. Supporting this, Livy places the structure in the prata Flaminia ("Flaminian meadows"), as this area was then ...

while an epitome of some of the lost books of Livy was the most important literary find in Latin. The classical author who has most benefited ...

author of the Alexandrian War, Cicero, Strabo, Livy (as far as we know), Lucan, Florus, Suetonius, Appian, and even Athenaeus—apparently knew nothing ...

by Greek and Roman historians, such as Livy, Polybius, Appian, Cornelius ... Tertullian, Orosius, and Diodorus Siculus. Livy and Polybius do not. The Hebrew ...

Xenophon, Diodorus, Strabo, Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, Justin, Ovid, Lucan, and Julian. The name of the Pythia derived from Pytho, which in myth ...

states. Machiavelli wrote in his Discourses on Livy that militia were critical for the survival of a free republic. The Italian patriot Garibaldi ...

Livy, Book 5. Roman dominance expanded over the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, reaching a population of one million people, and for almost 1 ...

to raise 200,000 fighting men. The Roman historian Livy was born near there in 59 B.C.E. The area is said to have been Christianized by Saint ...

Roman Empire. Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy (1513-1517) are an example. The notion of Empire contained in itself its ascendance and its decadence ...

9/Supplicium_de_More_Maiorum*.html LIVY I.26 and the Supplicum de More Maiorum] Transactions of the American Philological Association 39 (1908 ...

His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch, and other classical historians, as well as medieval ...

to his works and from stories related by Plutarch, Livy and other ancient historiographers. The preface to The Sand Reckoner tells us that Archimedes’ ...

notice of his scholarly interests. In 7, Livy was hired to tutor him in ... the founding of Rome identical to that of Livy, his tutor in adolescence ...

#039;s most famous works are Discourses on Livy, Florentine Histories, and finally The Prince, which has become so well-known in Western society ...

evidence about its early history—according to Livy (59 B.C.E. - 17 C.E.)—most of that history is legendary. Archaeology confirms a widespread level ...

evidence exists. The writings of Romans like Livy are considered masterpieces of pro-Roman statist propaganda. The Behistun inscription, made around 515 ...

III in the area, and the eclipse is mentioned by Livy in his Ab Urbe Condita VIII.2. It was also observed in Alexandria, where the Sun was reported ...

During the Augustan Age that followed, Livy produced a history of the Roman people in 142 books. Only 35 survived, but they are a major source ...

Orosius, Diodorus Siculus, and Philo. Livy and Polybius do not. The Bible asserts that children were at a place called the Tophet ("roasting ...

scholars. He also lectured on oratory, on Virgil and Livy. He was awarded the Bacheolor of Divinity degree in 1519, but never consented to "become ...

Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0199540068). Livy, too, is skeptical about the mythological tradition and claims that he does not intend to pass judgment ...

The Celts were described by classical writers such as Strabo, Livy, Pausanias, and Florus as fighting like "wild beasts," and as hordes ...

and the writings of Posidonius of Apamea influenced Livy and Plutarch. Philip Hitti, Professor of Semitic Literature at Princeton University, claimed ...