How To Use Livy In A Sentence
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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
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Livy felt lonely and rather frightened as she cycled off to the Examination Schools.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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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
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_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
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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
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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
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She and Ginny tried to cope as well as they could, with help from whomever of Livy's aunts could spare the time.
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Livy felt herself soften towards Caroline.
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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.’
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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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Twain joined Livy at prayers and grace before meals.
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Ovid, the elegiac poet who was a contemporary of Livy, quotes her as saying to Tarquinius, ‘Why, victor, do you rejoice?’
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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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LIVY mentions it as one of the prodigies which were to be "expiated" on the approach of a rupture with Macedon, that "in
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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Phoenicians about 1000 B.C. (10) This alludes to the story told by Plutarch ( "Caesar", 47) that, at Patavium, Caius Cornelius, a man reputed for skill in divination, and a friend of Livy the historian, was sitting to watch the birds that day.
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
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Livy was born at Patavium [272], and has been charged by Asinius Pollio and others with the provincial dialect of his country.
De vita Caesarum
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Livy felt herself soften towards Caroline.
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“So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements,” he cried, according to Livy.111 It is an old story—and a new story, as Mumford indicates.
Bloodlust
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Operae, pretium audire, &c. It is worthy of your attention, Livy cries, [4552] you that scorn all but riches, and give no esteem to virtue, except they be wealthy withal, Q. Cincinnatus had but four acres, and by the consent of the senate was chosen dictator of Rome.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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These Livy and Ginny brought experts in to identify, and found they were K'ang-hsi famille verte baluster vases and Buddhistic lions.
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LIVY mentions it as one of the prodigies which were to be "expiated," on the approach of a rupture with Macedon, that "in
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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It was literally, as Livy says, a "colluvies omnium gentium," which rolled down from the Alps, under his direction, to overwhelm the Romans on their own hearths.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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If the headmistress had any doubts about accepting Livy, they were swiftly dispelled.
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Dr Polivy's guess is that non-dieters perceive that they may have overeaten, so they feel as though they should take it easy on the dessert.
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But that summer he did what he had rarely attempted before, a vague impressionistic portrait of Livy and Alex.
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He looked at Livy and Mark, who had risen to greet him.
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The farewell gesture, the offer to bring Livy and her to America, shook Isa as no other presage of war had so far done.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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These Livy and Ginny brought experts in to identify, and found they were K'ang-hsi famille verte baluster vases and Buddhistic lions.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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He looked at Livy and Mark, who had risen to greet him.
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Livy laid her japonica, down to get a better "holt" for kissing -- which Susie presently perceived, and became thoughtful: then said sorrowfully, turning the great deeps of her eyes upon her mother: "Don't you care for you wow?
Complete Letters of Mark Twain
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Thus livyer ` a permanent coastal settler, 'after the citing of forms and of occurrences in other dictionaries, is overtly referred to the OED treatment of ier with the direction to compare lovyer, millier (entered as millyer), and shoreyer.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
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Livy's getting on very well in Russian. She learns very quickly.
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True, what I have written has something of the sentence length and lack of punctuation that made one wish the Romans had enjoyed Hemingway - typical of first drafts I am afraid - but you will find it quite clear if you choose to "decode" as in construing a passage of Livy.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Where Livy seeks to build a seamless account of Rome's noble and quasi-mythological heritage, Augustine seeks to bring to light the logical contradictions, cruelty, and impiousness of pagan Rome.
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Caius Cornelius, who had the character of a good augur, the fellow-citizen and acquaintance of Livy, the historian, happened to be making some augural observations that very day when the battle was fought.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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`I'll show you then," Livy said, with a faintly proprietorial air.
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_ -- Livy believes in the influence of the gods on human affairs: ix. 1, 11, 'cum rerum humanarum maximum momentum sit, quam propitiis rem, quam adversis agant dis.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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Livy (XXXII 22 1) has a _murmur_ of mingled praise and dissent following a speech: '_murmur_ ortum aliorum cum adsensu, aliorum inclementer adsentientes increpantium'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Livy's getting on very well in Russian. She learns very quickly.
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For Livy this is how Romulus obtained “sole power” and how Rome was founded and named.91 Here too, fratricide succeeds parricide, since after their triumphant return Romulus and Remus had killed the tyrant, their granduncle, who had seized power from their grandfather more enemy brothers!
Bloodlust
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Wherefore hath our mother the earth brought out poisons, saith [2764] Pliny, in so great a quantity, but that men in distress might make away themselves? which kings of old had ever in a readiness, ad incerta fortunae venenum sub custode promptum, Livy writes, and executioners always at hand.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Livy felt herself soften towards Caroline.
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Quibus quaestui sunt capti superstitione animi, as [6406] Livy saith.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The farewell gesture, the offer to bring Livy and her to America, shook Isa as no other presage of war had so far done.
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Livy V 4 5, XXIII 38 12 & XXXIX 9 5, and Pliny _NH_ XXXIII 134 'M. Crassus negabat locupletem esse nisi qui reditu annuo legionem _tueri_ posset'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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(Livy xxxix, 9-17), and the comedies of Plautus and Terence, in which the pandar and the harlot are familiar characters.
Satyricon
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`Never thought I'd be proud of the old buzzard ," Chris muttered beside Livy.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The farewell gesture, the offer to bring Livy and her to America, shook Isa as no other presage of war had so far done.
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These Livy and Ginny brought experts in to identify, and found they were K'ang-hsi famille verte baluster vases and Buddhistic lions.
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