While the Senate mustered their willing slaves, Hannibal offered his dishonoured Roman captives a chance for honourable death, in what Livy describes as something very like the Roman munus.

40 ) in which Livy describes the character of Cato, there is no word of blame for the rigid discipline of his household.

Livy describes the legendary figure of Lucretia as the epitome of pudicitia.

It may be that a colony was established there after the defeat as Livy afterwards describes Fidenae as a Roman colony.

The Roman historian Livy describes the Greek method as being inferior to that of the Romans during the Second Macedonian War.

As Livy describes, " So many thousands of Romans were dying ...

Here is how Livy describes their creation,

Livy ( 8. 31-36 ) describes a tense scene where Papirius stood nearly alone against the Senate and people, who supported Fabius because of his victory, but who also did not wish undercut the absolute authority they had given Papirius ; finally Fabius threw himself at the feet of the dictator and asked forgiveness, which was granted.

Livy ( v. 34 ) describes how around 600 B. C.

Livy ( 31. 27. 2 ) describes Antipatrea as a strongly fortified city in a narrow pass that the Romans sacked and burned.

Although Livy describes it as being tunnelled out beneath Rome, he was writing centuries after the event.

Livy describes their journey:

Although Livy describes the activities of Gaius Licinius in great detail, it is likely that his description is not accurate ; much of it is suspiciously similar to events in the age of the Gracchi two hundred years later, and it is quite possible that the annalist Licinius Macer invented episodes of his family's activities.

Livy describes in detail the humiliation of the Romans, which serves to underline the wisdom of Herennius's advice.

Cicero also describes anacyclosis in his philosophical work De re publica, as well as Machiavelli in Book I, Chapter II in his Discourses on Livy.

Livy describes the scene with the Veientines holed up in their city, the main Roman force encamped outside and a second force set to attack from within via the tunnel.

The battle might not have been such a total rout of the Samnites as Livy describes.

Caesar is the only narrative source for this episode, as the corresponding books of Livy ’ s histories are only preserved in the Periochae, short summarising lists of contents, in which hostages given by the Romans, but no yoke, are mentioned.

The study of these different institutions has been considerably renewed thanks to epigraphy, which has given us the possibility to reread the indications given us by ancient literary sources such as Livy and Polybius.

Florus calls it the urbs urbinum, or capital of Sardinia, and represents it as taken and severely punished by Gracchus, but this statement is wholly at variance with the account given by Livy, of the wars of Gracchus, in Sardinia, according to which the cities were faithful to Rome, and the revolt was confined to the mountain tribes.

Livy, reporting the evidence given by a woman who had been involved in the rites to a Roman investigative consul, writes:

Even Flaccus hesitated, but his colleague Cato was inflexible, and made an impolite and characteristic speech, the substance of which, remodelled and modernized, is given by Livy.

In addition to the consul Paullus, Livy goes on to record that among the dead were 2 quaestors, 29 of the 48 military tribunes ( some of consular rank, including the consul of the previous year, Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, and the former Master of the Horse, Marcus Minucius Rufus ), and 80 " senators or men who had held offices which would have given them the right to be elected to the Senate ".

It is clear that Livy, or his sources, has consciously modelled the Campanian embassy after the " Corcyrean debate " in Thucydides ' History of the Peloponnesian War There are many parallels between the speech given by the Campanian ambassador to the Roman senate in Livy and the speech of the Corcyrean ambassador to the Athenian assembly in Thucydides.

But when and by whom it was destroyed is uncertain ; it was almost certainly subjugated at a later date than that given by Livy, and may have been destroyed by the Latins and not by the Romans, who might have regarded as impious the destruction of their traditional mother-country.

In the account given by Livy, Laevinus, hearing that Apollonia was under siege, sent 2000 men under the command of Quintus Naevius Crista, to the mouth of the river.

Although the precise location is not known, it is generally accepted that a settlement known today as Vigevano is mentioned in the text of Livy and that Scipio's camp was at Gambolo to the south, whose coordinates are given on the map.

Livy adds that he believes the ranks of the Carthaginians were expanded by contingents of Ligurians and Gauls to reach 80, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry ( the figure given by Lucius Cincius Alimentus ).

In 1738 he published at Utrecht a Dissertation sur l ' incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l ' histoire romaine, in which he showed what untrustworthy guides even the historians of highest repute, such as Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, were for that period, and pointed out by what methods and by the aid of what documents truly scientific bases might be given to its history.

This is illustrated by the example given by Titus Livy of the colony of Massalia ( the present day Marseilles ), where those who wanted to kill themselves merely applied to the Senate, and if their reasons were judged sound they were then given hemlock free of charge.

On his return to Rome, Nobilior celebrated a triumph ( of which full details are given by Livy ) remarkable for the magnificence of the spoils exhibited.

The choice whether a collegium of Consular Tribunes or consuls were to be elected for a given year was made by senatus consultum, thereby ( according to Livy ) accounting for the periods of either office interspersed with the other.

The History of the City of Rome ( 1865 ) down to the end of the Middle Ages was followed by the History of the Kings of Rome ( 1868 ), which, upholding against the German school the general credibility of the account of early Roman history, given in Livy and other classical authors, was violently attacked by J. R. Seeley and the Saturday Review, as showing ignorance of the comparative method.

Ancient pictures of the Roman twins usually follow certain symbolic traditions, depending on the legend they follow: they either show a shepherd, the she-wolf, the twins under a fig tree, and one or two birds ( Livy, Plutarch ); or they depict two shepherds, the she-wolf, the twins in a cave, seldom a fig tree, and never any birds ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus ).

Livy reports that the initial engagement, though bloody, did not result in success for either side.

Ovid and Martial imply that boys and girls were educated either together or similarly, and Livy takes it for granted that the daughter of a centurion would be in school.

Livy goes on to say that the Romans instituted a public festival of nine days, at the instigation either of a ' heavenly voice ' heard on the Mons Albanus, or of the haruspices.

According to a tradition recounted by Titus Livy, the hill received its name from Caelius Vibenna, either because he established a settlement there or because his friend Servius Tullius wished to honor him after his death.

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

Machiavelli notes that Rome's actions as recounted by Livy proceeded either by " public counsel " or by " private counsel ," and that they concerned either things inside the city or things outside the city, yielding four possible combinations.

Livy explains that in the year 366 BC the praetura was created to relieve the consuls of their judicial duties.

Livy puts the reason bluntly: the consuls could no longer seek advantage by arbitrarily tampering with the laws of Rome.

Accoriding to Livy, the two Roman consuls for 343, Marcus Valerius Corvus and Aulus Cornelius Cossus, both marched with armies against the Samnites.

Livy writes that the consuls of 298 divided the military commands between them, Scipio receiving Etruria and Fulvius Samnium.

The Augustan-era historian Livy ( 21. 6. 3 ) seems to indicate that Valerius and Baebius were dispatched by the consuls of 218.

The reasons for this choice are obscure, though Livy often cast the decision according to the class struggles he saw as endemic during this period, with patricians generally favoring consuls and plebs the military tribunes.

Livy wrote in a mixture of annual chronology and narrative — often having to interrupt a story to announce the elections of new consuls.