It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus ; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are particularly interesting.

Livy gives almost the same, 240 years for that interval.

Livy, a Roman scholar, gives a depiction of the young Carthaginian:

Livy gives due attention to the plundered wealth of statuary, gold and silver, but particular weight to the specialist chefs, flute girls, one-legged tables and other " dinner-party amusements " brought to Rome from exotic Galatia for the ( putative ) triumph of Gnaeus Manlius Vulso in 187 BCE.

Livy gives two versions of Remus ' death.

Livy, writing 200 years after the event, gives a highly theatrical account of the Bacchanalia's introduction by a foreign soothsayer, a " Greek of mean condition ... a low operator of sacrifices ".

Livy gives a different account.

Livy gives him the title of vir duxque magnus with the implied qualities that were nothing more than the ideals of the ancient virtues.

The preface gives a particular account of all the literary men, who have at different periods commented on the works of Livy.

Livy portrays this retreat as some sort of cowardice but Polybius gives the additional detail.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

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 fired rockfall event is mentioned only by Livy ; Polybius is mute on the subject and there is no evidence of carbonized rock at the only two-tier rockfall in the Western Alps, located below the Col de la Traversette ( Mahaney, 2008 ).

There was as yet no precedent for a triumph except in a senior magistracy with command rights ( praetura or consulate ) or with command rights extended from such a magistacy ( viri pro praetore and pro consule ): on these grounds, according to Livy, the request was quite properly refused.

Livy infers Romulus ' murder as no more than a dim and doubtful whisper from the past ; in the circumstances, Proculus ' declaration is wise and practical because it has the desired effect.

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

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

In the abbreviated ( one section ) and skeptical version of Livy, no battle took place, but " his own men, a panic-struck mob, were deserting their posts and throwing away their arms .".

Apparently the emperor held no grudges against the Livii, even tolerating the republicanism of the author, Livy, distant kinsman of Livia Drusilla.

According to Livy a Roman army ravaged Aequan territory again in 388, this time meeting no resistance.

The crux of the problem is that there is no contemporaneous account of the conflict ; writers such as Polybius, who might have met persons whose grandparents participated in the conflict, do not mention it, while the writers who do speak of the conflict, such as Livy or Cicero, report fact and fable equally readily, and invariably assume that there were no fundamental changes in Roman institutions in nearly 500 years.

There is no archaeological evidence from material culture of such a cultural shift, but adherents of this latter school of thought point to the legend of Lydian origin of the Etruscans referred to by Herodotus, and the statement of Livy that the Raetians were Etruscans driven into the mountains by the invading Gauls.

He falsified the report about the trials of the Scipio brothers ( compare Livy 38. 50-60 ) and seems to have invented high offices and deeds of members of his house, the gens Valeria, who lived in the early Roman republic because there were no reliable sources about these early times, which could have disproved his assertions.

# There is no mention of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, which disappears from the historical record after Livy.

According to Livy, the Samnites had no idea what to do to take advantage of their success.

Terracina occupied a position of notable strategic importance: it is located in fact at the point where the Volscian Hills ( an extension of the Lepini Mountains ) reach the coast, leaving no space for passage between them and the sea, in a site commanding the Pontine Marshes ( urbs prona in paludes, " a city flat in the marshes ", as Livy called it ) and also possessing a small harbour.

Livy is clear that no sexual assault took place.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

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.

In 320 and 319, the Romans returned for revenge against the Samnites and defeated them in what the Roman historian Livy described as one of the greatest events in Roman history.

It was, however, regarded with some veneration by the ancient Romans, and the story most often repeated is that told by Livy ( vii. 6 ): Rome, facing a peril which an oracle had stated would be overcome only when the City threw into the chasm what she held to be most dear, was saved by a young horseman named Marcus Curtius ( a member of the Curtia Gens ), who understood that it was the life of a brave Roman youth that the Romans held most dear, and who therefore plunged into it in full armour on his horse, whereupon the earth closed over him and Rome was saved.

Therefore, what is under the fresco Przemiany Liwiusza ( Transformations of Livy ) should be analyzed diligently.

He wrote after the manner of the Latin authors, trying to imitate Livy, putting together long and sonorous periods in a style that aimed at being like Boccaccio's, caring little about what constitutes the critical material of history, only intent on declaiming his academic prose for his country's benefit.

A key passage pertaining to what Romans understood as " international law " is presented by Livy, as spoken by an envoy of King Antiochus:

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.

So some idea of the topics Livy covered in the lost books exists, if often not what he said about them.

The formation of the Latin League led by Laevius ( or Baebius ) Egerius happened under the influence of an alliance with the tyrant of Cuma Aristodemos and is probably connected to the political events at end of the 6th century narrated by Livy and Dionysius, such as the siege of Aricia by Porsenna's son Arruns.

Pocock, in the so-called " Cambridge School " of interpretation have been able to show that some of the republican themes in Machiavelli's political works, particularly the Discourses on Livy, can be found in medieval Italian literature which was influenced by classical authors such as Sallust.

His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart.

During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like Julius Caesar, Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the republic and Rome's empire and wars.

Like his contemporaries ( all of whom who were educated by reading classical authors such as Livy, Cicero, and Horace ), Shaftesbury admired the simplicity of life of classical antiquity.

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.

She is described as such in both Livy and Plutarch ; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, she was instead the wife of Hostus Hostilius, a Roman champion at the time of Romulus.

Although the story appears in many different credible ancient sources, such as Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Livy, with variations, many historians have been skeptical of the story.

Annals and histories might also include sections pertaining to these subjects, but annals are chronological in structure, and Roman histories, such as those of Livy and Tacitus, are both chronological and offer an overarching narrative and interpretation of events.

Following Roman sources such as Livy and Virgil, the Historia tells how Aeneas settled in Italy after the Trojan War, and how his son Ascanius founded Alba Longa, one of the precursors of Rome.

Roman historians such as Livy told tales of early Romans as morally improving stories of military prowess and civic virtue.

Virtue theory was inserted into the study of history by moralistic historians such as Livy, Plutarch, and Tacitus.

Roman-era historians such as Livy and Plutarch often refer to these early coins as denarii, but modern numismatic references consider these coins as anonymous Roman silver, produced before the standardization of the denarius around 211 B. C.

His studious youth brought him extensive knowledge of the Classics, and it is known that in his childhood years he enjoyed translating Roman authors such as Livy.

The Celts were described by classical writers such as Strabo, Livy, Pausanias, and Florus as fighting like " wild beasts ", and as hordes.

Howard concludes disparagingly that " It is on such evidence as this that we are asked to believe that Antias was the source of considerable portions of Livy's history and that Livy followed blindly, at least in the earlier part of his work.

Historians such as Polybius and Livy attributed heavy Roman losses to these machines, together with catapults also devised by Archimedes.

Livy casts doubt on Macer's reliability, suggesting that he misrepresented events in order to glorify the Licinii, but notes that he quotes original sources, such as the Linen Rolls.

Cases, however, occur of the establishment of public hospitality between two cities ( Rome and Caere, Livy v. 50 ), and of towns entering into a position of clientship to some distinguished Roman, who then became patronus of such a town.