The nearly completely lost work of Antias – cited as annales or as historiae – began its account of the Roman history with the foundation of Rome and extended at least to the year 91 BC.

Antias ’ account of each year included the allocation of troops and provinces, important omen, battles, foundation of new colonies etc.

Not much is known about the life of Valerius Antias.

Plutarch ( citing Valerius Antias ) and Livy records that at his request he was buried along with these " sacred books ", preferring that the rules and rituals they prescribed be preserved in the living memory of the state priests, rather than preserved as relics subject to forgetfulness and disuse.

A fragment of Valerius Antias from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita 36. 36. 4 records that Megalesia were again held in 191 BC and that " were the first to be held with dramatic performances.

In this myth she is shown as counselor and guide to King Numa in the establishment of the original framework of laws and rituals of Rome, and in this role she is somehow uniquely in Roman mythology associated with " sacred books "; Numa ( Latin " numen " designates " the expressed will of a deity ") is reputed to have written down the teachings of Egeria in " sacred books " that he made bury with him ; when some chance accident brought them back to light some 400 years later, they were deemed by the Senate inappropriate for disclosure to the people and destroyed by their order ; what made them inappropriate was certainly of " political " nature but apparently has not been handed down by Valerius Antias, the source that Plutarch was using. Dionysius of Halicarnassus hints that they were actually kept as a very close secret by the Pontifices.

Under the influence of Hellenistic historiography Antias related his stories very long-winded and filled with sensationalism to entertain his readers.

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

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 ...."

He disagrees with six of these, criticizes eleven more, quotes Antias in disagreement on ten, and agrees with, but later disproves, two.

Along with annalist Valerius Antias, Livy freely used Quadrigarius as a major source in part of his work ( from the sixth book onwards ).

For instance, he asserts the number of the Sabine virgins to have been exactly 527 ; again, in a certain year when no Greek or Latin writers mention any important campaign, Antias speaks of a big battle with enormous casualties.

* Valerius Antias, a younger contemporary of Quadrigarius, wrote the history of Rome from the earliest times, in a voluminous work consisting of seventy-five books.

The life of Numa was of extensive interest to Antias.

However, it is more likely that the later consulships were attributable to his son, and were confused and exaggerated by later family members including Valerius Antias.

* Aulus Furius Antias, a poet of the 1st century BC, admired by Aulus Gellius and Publius Vergilius Maro.

For the entire period covered by Livy, 33 fragments of Antias come from Livy.

Nevertheless, his list of accomplishments is suspiciously long ; Valerius Antias is considered to have been responsible for some of the exaggeration.

During the reigns of Claudius and Nero he compiled for his sons, from various sources -- e. g. the Gazette ( Aetablica ), shorthand reports or skeletons ( commentarii ) of Cicero's unpublished speeches, Tiro's life of Cicero, speeches and letters of Cicero's contemporaries, various historical writers, e. g. Varro, Atticus, Antias, Tuditanus and Fenestella ( a contemporary of Livy whom he often criticizes ) -- historical commentaries on Cicero's speeches, of which only five, viz, in Pisonem, pro Scauro, pro Milone, pro Cornelio and in toga candida, in a very mutilated edition, are preserved, under the modern title Q. Asconii Pediani Orationvm Ciceronis qvinqve enarratio.

Valerius Antias ( 1st century BC ) was an ancient Roman annalist whom Livy mentions as a source.

Of the seventy references to Antias in classical ( Greek and Latin ) literature sixty-one mention him as an authority on Roman legendary history.

Antias ' family were the Valerii Antiates, a branch of the Valeria gens residing at least from early republican times in the vicinity of Antium.

He may have been related to Lucius Valerius Antias, placed in command of a convoy of five ships to transport high-ranking Carthaginian prisoners in 215 BC.

The work of Antias was not very reliable.

His father, Jacques-François Deluc, was the author of some publications in refutation of Mandeville and other rationalistic writers, which are best known through Rousseau's humorous account of his ennui in reading them ; and he gave his son an excellent education, chiefly in mathematics and natural science.

The officers gave this account:

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

He gave an account of his father and his own reminiscences in The à Becketts of Punch ( 1903 ).

" Tramiel gave this account in many interviews, but Opel's Commodore didn't debut until 1967, years after the company had been named.

The police gave chase but, as one account puts it, " were encumbered by sobriety ," and the men escaped.

During the People's Consultative Assembly's first annual session in August 2000, President Wahid gave an account of his government's performance.

Credit for popularising the term may be given to Arnold Toynbee, whose lectures given in 1881 gave a detailed account of it.

This account frequently invokes the slogan of " avenging the blood of Naboth " (, 25, 26 ), whose vineyard Jehoram's father Ahab had taken by force (); this fact suggests that perhaps the burden of making the northern kingdom a regional power had grown too heavy for its citizens, and Jehoram's defeat at Ramoth-Gilead gave them an opportunity to throw this burden off.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

In the following decade, French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne gave a comprehensive account of thirteen boys with the most common and severe form of the disease, which now carries his name — Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Strabo says that Pytheas gave an account of " what is beyond the Rhine as far as Scythia ", which he, Strabo, thinks is false.

Being an Exact and True account ( by way of Journal ) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or ( Devils Incarnate ) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the county of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about ( by an Invisible hand ) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year.

Only those who gave a convincing account of such a conversion could be admitted to full church membership.

17th century traveller and author, John Bargrave, gave an account of his interactions with the Roman Inquisition.

Nevanlinna gave a fuller account of the theory in the monographs La théoreme de Picard – Borel et la théorie des fonctions méromorphes ( 1929 ) and Eindeutige analytische Funktionen ( 1936 ).

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

An Ethiopian account ( Kebra Nagast ) maintains that the Queen of Sheba had sexual relations with King Solomon ( of which the Biblical and Quranic accounts give no hint ) and gave birth by the Mai Bella stream in the province of Hamasien, Eritrea.

Bowdler's first published work was Letters Written in Holland in the Months of September and October, 1787 ( 1788 ), which gave his eye-witness account of the Patriots ' uprising.

John Stuart Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures might suggest that he gave more status to humans but in The Methods of Ethics Sidgwick says " We have next to consider who the " all " are, whose happiness is to be taken into account.

He described the omentum, and its connections with the stomach, the spleen and the colon ; gave the first correct views of the structure of the pylorus ; observed the small size of the caecal appendix in man ; gave the first good account of the mediastinum and pleura and the fullest description of the anatomy of the brain yet advanced.

* He also observed the small size of the caecal appendix in man and gave the first good account of the mediastinum and pleura.

In 2010, the novelist Jack Whyte gave another fictionalized account of Wallace ’ s life, particularly his early life, in The Forest Laird, the first book in The Guardians of Scotland trilogy.

After the publication in 1724 of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, which gave a favorable account of Rogers ' efforts to suppress piracy in the Bahamas, his fortunes began to improve.

The Arab navigator, Ahmad Bin Majid, visited Bahrain in 1489 and gave a contemporary account of the country that the first Portuguese would have seen: " In Awal ( Bahrain ) there are 360 villages and fresh water can be found in a number of places.