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.

Livy records the wording of the form of surrender.

Livy records Hannibal's losses at " about 8, 000 of his bravest men.

In addition the Fasti Triumphales records two Roman triumphs dating to this war and some of the events described by Livy are also mentioned by other ancient writers.

He draws on his own experience as a general in Germany under Domitian, but similarities between the anecdotes he records and versions of other Roman authors like Valerius Maximus and Livy suggest that he drew mainly on literary sources.

Livy records that the quaestor Lucius Cornelius Scipio was sent to meet King Prusias II of Bithynia and conduct him to Rome, when this monarch visited Italy in 167 BC.

As Livy records, two tribunes, Marcus Fulvius and Manius Curius publicly opposed his candidacy for consulship, as he was just a quaestor, but the Senate overrode the opposition and he was elected along with Sextus Aelius Paulus.

Livy records that, by these matters, a faithful peace between Porsena and Rome was created.

Poetelius, after whom the Lex Poetelia Papiria is named, held his third consulship in 326 BC, the date that Livy records.

Livy also records that before the temple's construction shrines to other gods occupied the site.

Livy records two more Roman victories against the Samnites in 343, a victory by the other consul, Cornelius Cossus, at the Battle of Saticula, and a second victory by Valerius Corvus at the Battle of Suessula.

Modern historians believe little, if any, of the detail provided by Livy for this battle derive from authentic records.

Livy records that this persecution was due to that " there was nothing wicked, nothing flagitious, that had not been practiced among them " but some modern scholars suspect other reasons.

Livy records that more people were put to death than imprisoned:

Livy records the wording of the form of the town's surrender.

Livy records that naval levies in the War against Antiochos consisted of freedmen and colonists ( 191 BC ), while in the Third Macedonian War ( 171 BC – 168 BC ) Rome ’ s fleet was manned by freedmen with Roman citizenship and allies.

According to Livy ( v. 34 ), they took part in the expedition of Bellovesus into Italy in the 6th century BC.

The Lusitani are mentioned for the first time in Livy ( 218 BC ) and are described as fighting for the Carthaginians ; they are reported as fighting against Rome in 194 BC, sometimes allied with Celtiberian tribes.

In 451 BC, according to the traditional story ( as Livy tells it ), ten Roman citizens were chosen to record the laws ( decemviri legibus scribundis ).

The main literary sources for Servius ' life and achievements are the Roman historian Livy ( 59 BC – AD 17 ), his near contemporary Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch ( c. 46 – 120 AD ); their own sources included works by Quintus Fabius Pictor, Diocles of Peparethus and Quintus Ennius.

In Rome, the vast, patriotic history of Rome by Livy ( 59 BC-17 AD ) approximated Herodotean inclusiveness ; Polybius ( c. 200-c. 118 BC ) aspired to combine the logical rigor of Thucydides with the scope of Herodotus.

* Livy, Roman historian ( b. 59 BC )

* Livy, Roman historian ( c. 59 BC )

According to Livy, the hill first became part of the city of Rome, along with the Viminal Hill, during the reign of Servius Tullius, Rome ' sixth king, in the 6th century BC.

It was abolished by the Romans at the time of their reorganization of Macedonia in 167 BC, to prevent, according to Livy, that a demagogue could make use of it as a mean to revolt against their authority.

For example, Livy, a Roman historian who lived in the 1st century BC, wrote a history of Rome called Ab Urbe Condita ( From the Founding of the City ) in 144 volumes ; only 35 volumes still exist, although short summaries of most of the rest do exist.

Perugia was an Umbrian settlement but first appears in written history as Perusia, one of the 12 confederate cities of Etruria ; it was first mentioned in Q. Fabius Pictor's account, utilized by Livy, of the expedition carried out against the Etruscan league by Fabius Maximus Rullianus in 310 or 309 BC.

Livy informs us that the rapid spread of the cult, which he claims indulged in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, led in 186 BC to a decree of the Senate – the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Apulia in Southern Italy ( 1640 ), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna – by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

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

From the statement in Livy, that in 194 BC, Sextus Digitius was appointed to the province of Hispania Citerior, it is probable that Plutarch was mistaken in assigning that province to Scipio Africanus.

According to Livy, the dictator A. Postumius vowed games ( ludi ) and a joint public temple to a Triad of Ceres, Liber and Libera on Rome's Aventine Hill, c. 496 BC.

According to Plutarch, these books were recovered some four hundred years later ( in reality almost five hundred years, i. e. in 186 BC according to Livy ) at the occasion of a natural accident that exposed the tomb.

* Livy ( Titus Livius ), of Patavium, who came to Rome in the 1st century BC and wrote a magnum opus, Ab Urbe Condita ( book )

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

Livy writes that, at the approach of the Clusian army in 508 BC, with the prospect of a siege, the Roman senate arranged for the purchase of grain from the Volsci to feed the lower classes of Rome.

Gnaeus Pompēius Trōgus, known as Pompeius Trogus, Pompey Trogue, or Trogue Pompey, was a 1st century BC Roman historian of the Celtic tribe of the Vocontii in Gallia Narbonensis, flourished during the age of Augustus, nearly contemporary with Livy.

Livy, Plutarch and Aulus Gellius attribute the creation of the Vestals as a state-supported priesthood to king Numa Pompilius, who reigned circa 717 – 673 BC.

Livy reports that the first admission of plebeians into a priestly college happened in 300 BC when the college of Augurs raised their number from four to nine.

Lucius Livius Andronicus ( c. 280 / 260 – c. 200 BC ), not to be confused with the later historian Livy, was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period.

His chief authorities were Cato's Origines, the Annales of Q Hortensius, Pompeius Trogus, Cornelius Nepos and Livy.

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.