Livy

How To Use Livy In A Sentence

• T. Livius (Livy, 64 B.C.E. –12 C.E.) capped the annalistic tradition by writing a monumental history of Rome from its origin. 3. Civil War and Renewal, 70 B.C.E.-14 C.E
• Livy felt lonely and rather frightened as she cycled off to the Examination Schools. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
• Julius Caesar, Livy and the geographer Strabo all had a go before Tacitus published his monograph in 98 A.D. But it was his account of these pure-bred, frighteningly tall, dazzlingly blond warriors with their piercing blue eyes, their chastity and their courage, that stuck in the German mind and, nearly two millennia later, bolstered the Nazis' fantasies that they were destined to be the Master Race. Hitler's Golden Book
• _oxhead and flowers_ which now flourish over every door in the new-built streets of London; but the original of which, as Livy tells us, and I believe Plutarch too, was this. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
• If we glance over the latter part of the book of prodigies, compiled by the otherwise unknown writer Julius Obsequens from the records of the pontifices quoted in Livy's history, we can get a fair idea of the kind of portent that was troubling the popular mind. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
• Of the latter I shall have better occasion to speak when we come to our provincial orbs; the former divided the whole people by tribes, amounting, as Livy and Cicero show, at their full growth to thirty-five, and every tribe by the sense or valuation of estates into five classes: for the sixth being proletary, that is the nursery, or such as through their poverty contributed nothing to the commonwealth but children, was not reckoned nor used in arms. The Commonwealth of Oceana
• She and Ginny tried to cope as well as they could, with help from whomever of Livy's aunts could spare the time. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
• Livy felt herself soften towards Caroline.
• Even Livy thought that ‘the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the word's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods.’
• Apart from his unhistorical approach, Livy has also been attacked for failing to be critical of his sources, particularly Roman annalists.