Page "Valerius Antias" Paragraph 9

In one long-standing view of Antias ' influence on Livy, the latter relied mainly on the former in Books 1-10 of Ab Urbe Condita Libri, the legendary history of Rome.

To elucidate this possible influence, A. A. Howard compared each of Antias ' fragments with the equivalent story in Livy.

He deduced that there is no evidence of such influence in the first ten books.

Of twenty fragments falling within the period Livy does not use any, either omitting the information, or explicitly disagreeing with it.

Howard says :" The argument that Livy made free use of Antias and mentioned him only in case of disagreement is absolutely without foundation, for we have seen fourteen specific instances in which, although Livy does not mention him, he nevertheless disagrees with his statements as known to us from other sources, or absolutely disregards them ...."