His parents died when he was young, and he was cared for by his maternal uncle Marcus Livius Drusus, who also looked after Quintus Servilius Caepio, Servilia Caepionis Maior, and Servilia Caepionis Minor from Livia's first marriage ( though Quintus Servilius Caepio was generally known to be Cato's full brother ), as well as Porcia ( Cato's full sister ), and Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus ( Livius ' adopted son ).

A story told by Plutarch tells of Quintus Poppaedius Silo, leader of the Marsi and involved in a highly controversial business in the Roman Forum, who made a visit to his friend Marcus Livius and met the children of the house.

Other major historical figures who appear and play prominent parts in the series include Mithridates VI of Pontus, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Publius Rutilius Rufus, Quintus Sertorius, Marcus Livius Drusus, Jugurtha of Numidia, Spartacus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, Marcus Porcius Cato, Publius Clodius, Titus Annius Milo, Vercingetorix, Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Antonius, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Caesarion and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

* Livius. org: Quintus Petillius Cerialis

The Senate now sent a delegation of " all oldish men-Quintus Fabius, Marcus Livius, Lucius Aemilius, Gaius Licinius, and Quintus Baebius " with plenipotentiary powers: the right to withhold or declare war on an ad hoc basis.

A third storyline is focused on the figures of Marcus Livius Drusus and his sister Livia Drusa who both feature more prominently in The Grass Crown: and their own growing friendship with the Servilius Caepio family resulting in a double marriage, which proves disastrous when Quintus Servilius Caepio Senior is not only accused of embezzling more gold than there was in the Roman Treasury, but also is responsible for Rome's most disastrous military defeat for generations-a defeat which so ruins the credibility of the conservative leaders of the Senate that it lets Marius into power far earlier than he expected, and for a longer time.

Alternatively, Titus Livius tells that the Lacus Curtius was named after Mettius Curtius, a Sabine horseman who rode into or fell into it while fighting against Romulus, during the war begun after the Rape of the Sabine Women.

The combined political positions of Lucius Opimius, Livius Drusus and Marcus Minucius Rufus, another political enemy of Gaius, to tribune meant the repeal of as many of Gaius ' measures as possible.

* Livius Andronicus, poet ;

The Camenae were later identified with the Greek Muses ; in his translation of Homer's Odyssey, Livius Andronicus rendered the Greek word Mousa as Camena.

The Livii Salinatores may not have been named from that occupation ; M. Livius Salinator, consul 207 BC, set a fixed price for the salt sold at Salinae, which did not endear him to the salinatores.

* Titus Livius ( Livy ; 64 BC – 12 AD ), historian

Sure enough, Livius feels that a non-aristocrat such as himself would never be accepted as emperor without Aurelius ' explicit backing ; he lets his old friend take the position instead.

Timonides wins the Germans ' trust by successfully undergoing an ordeal, having his hand thrust in a fire ; with his help, Livius decides to put Aurelius ' policy into effect despite disapproval from Commodus.

The Senate hastily offer to make Livius emperor, but he refuses ; the Roman government is now too corrupt for him to fix.

Other notable cues include those for The Roman Forum, composed to accompany Commodus's triumphal return to Rome as the newly-installed Emperor ; a percussive scherzo for a barbarian attack by Ballomar's army ; the Tarantella danced by the Roman mob on the evening presaging the gladiatorial combat between Livius and Commodus ( which seems to be modelled on the Tarantella movement from the Piano Concerto of Tiomkin's teacher Ferruccio Busoni ).

Claudius Nero's force of over 40, 000 men was too formidable for Hannibal to engage openly, and so the two played an unproductive game of cat and mouse in Bruttium ; meanwhile, Marcus Livius, despite the added bulwark of two of the many Roman armies scattered across Italy — yielded cautiously to Hasdrubal, allowed him to push beyond the Metaurus as far south as the town of Sena.

Nonetheless, the effects of Claudius Nero and Marcus Livius ' victory at the Metaurus have earned it a significant standing amongst historians ; not only of the history of Rome, but in that of the entire world.

* Publius Licinius P. f. P. n. Calvus Esquilinus, tribunus militum consulari potestate in 400 BC ; according to Livius, one of the first plebeians elected to this office, although some of the consular tribunes in 444 and 422 may also have been plebeians.

# Remains of Old Latin II: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Pacuvius and Accius ( 1936 ; ISBN 0-674-99347-0 )

Livius Andronicus began to write Roman tragedies, thus creating some of the first important works of Roman literature.

Nevertheless, he rapidly marches the elite parts of his army some one hundred kilometres north to reinforce the army of Marcus Livius Salinator.

Claudius Nero had just fought Hannibal in Grumentum, some hundreds of kilometers south of the Metaurus river, and reached Marcus Livius with a forced march which went unnoticed by both Hannibal and Hasdrubal, so that the Carthaginians suddenly found themselves outnumbered.

However, Marcus Livius Drusus is considered by some historians to have been an Optimatis ( see, for example: Ward, Heichelheim and Yeo, A History of the Roman People, 3rd ed., page 164 ).

The time this occurred is still debated with no definite evidence, some historians arguing that the first settlement of the ancient Roman Forum was built approximately in 188 BC by consul Gaius Livius Salinator ( who confronted Hasdrubal Barca and vanquished him at the banks of the Metaurus River in 207 BC ), while others even argue it may have been founded later, in the time of Julius Caesar.

* Livius. org, a good brief history plus some stunning photos.

Not conversant in the English language, he received the help of Francis Maseres and Petier Livius to write the document, which contains a detailed account of his confrontation with judge Fraser, his arrest, sequestration, his numerous letters asking to be trialled before a jury of his peers, etc.

" The Romans used an adjectival construction not conducive to the formation of an English noun, as in the name of Titus Livius ' work on Roman history, Ab urbe condita, literally " from the city founded ," meaning " from the foundation of the city.

Ab urbe condita libri — often shortened to Ab urbe condita — is a monumental history of ancient Rome written in Latin sometime between 27 and 25 BC by the historian Titus Livius, known in English as Livy.

For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

** Quintus Curtius Rufus

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are documented by ancient Greek and Roman writers, including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus.

Quintus Curtius Rufus ( active 1st century AD ) referred to the writings of Cleitarchus, a 4th century BC historian of Alexander the Great, when writing his own History of Alexander the Great:

Literary sources are Alexander's propagandist Arrian ( Anabasis Alexandri 2. 3 ) Quintus Curtius ( 3. 1. 14 ), Justin's epitome of Pompeius Trogus ( 11. 7. 3 ), and Aelian's De Natura Animalium 13. 1.

* Quintus Curtius Rufus, 1st century CE historian

* Images of the silver coins (" denarii ") made by order of the coinage Triunvir Quintus Curtius in 115-116 B. C.

Quintus Curtius Rufus, the historian, says he was crucified in the place where Darius III had been killed, Arrian states that he was tortured and then decapitated in Ecbatana, and Plutarch suggests that he was torn apart in Bactria after a Macedonian trial.

* The Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus wrote Historiae Alexandri Magni.

* Quintus Curtius Rufus ( 1st century AD ), historian

* Quintus Curtius viii.

Iron caltrops were used as early as 331 BC at Gaugamela according to Quintus Curtius ( IV. 13. 36 ).

The Roman writer Quintus Curtius Rufus relates the story in his Historiae Alexandri Magni: " Perdiccas saw that they mutineers were paralyzed and at his mercy.

Hardy wrote quickly, often adapting plays from French, foreign and classical sources ( Ovid, Lucian, Plutarch, Xenophon, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Miguel de Cervantes, Jorge de Montemayor, Boccaccio, François de Rosset ).

According to the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, Batis was killed by Alexander in imitation of Achilles ' treatment of the fallen Hector.

Alexander the Great: The Unique History of Quintus Curtius.

However, he learned to read French, German, Polish, and Italian, and devoted himself to intense study of several military authors including Plutarch, Quintus Curtius, Cornelius Nepos, Julius Caesar, and Charles XII.

His translation from Quintus Curtius, La Vie d ' Alexandre ( posthumously published in 1653 ) deserves notice as an application of the author's own rules.

Both Quintus Curtius Rufus and Arrian refer to Alexander himself meeting with a tribe of fish-eating savages while on his Indian campaign.

* Quintus Curtius Rufus ( 58 – 59 )

Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius ( 41-54 AD ) or Vespasian ( 69-79 AD ).

The History of Alexander, Quintus Curtius Rufus ( Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2004 ).

* Elizabeth Baynham, Alexander the Great: The Unique History of Quintus Curtius, 1998.

* Quintus Curtius ' Histories of Alexander the Great ( Loeb edition, Latin )

* Quintus Curtius ' Histories of Alexander the Great in Latin at The Latin Library