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Livy seems to think that Scipio's wound gave the entire authority to Sempronius, but immediately after the battle Scipio commanded an army marching from his camp to Placentia ( Piacenza ).
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Livy and seems
Firstly, particularly in the Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli is unusual in the positive side he sometimes seems to describe in factionalism in republics.
There is some discrepancy as to the people to which it belonged at contact: Pliny expressly assigns it to the Hirpini ; but Livy certainly seems to consider it as belonging to the Samnites proper, as distinguished from the Hirpini ; and Ptolemy adopts the same view.
It was apparently one of the cities which revolted to the Carthaginians immediately after the battle of Cannae, though, in another passage, Livy seems to place its defection somewhat later.
The Augustan-era historian Livy ( 21. 6. 3 ) seems to indicate that Valerius and Baebius were dispatched by the consuls of 218.
According to Livy, this was the act of an unselfish Hellenophile, although it seems more likely that Flamininus understood freedom as liberty for the aristocracy of Greece, who would then become clients of Rome, as opposed to being subjected to Macedonian hegemony.
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.
The Annales have been generally regarded as the same with the Commentarii Pontificum cited by Livy, but there seems reason to believe that the two were distinct, the Commentarii being fuller and more circumstantial.
According to Livy, he was educated at Rome ; but this account may perhaps refer to another Ariarathes, while Ariarathes Eusebes probably studied in his youth in Athens, where he seems to have become a friend of the future king Attalus II Philadelphus.
Livy and think
According to Livy, Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and final king of Rome, judged capital criminal cases without the advice of counsellors, thereby creating fear amongst those who might think to oppose him.
Livy and Scipio's
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 and gave
Livy says merely that the colony was sent in Thurinum agrum, and does not mention anything of a change of name ; but Strabo tells us that they gave to the new colony the name of Copiae, and this statement is confirmed both by Stephanus of Byzantium, and by the evidence of coins, on which, however, the name is written " COPIA ".
In 280 BC, after he had gone blind ( because of a curse, according to Livy ), he gave a famous speech against Cineas, an envoy of Pyrrhus of Epirus, declaring that Rome would never surrender.
Livy wrote that " Though every other person in the council advised safe rather than showy measures, urging that he should wait for his colleague, in order that joining their armies, they might carry on the war with united courage and counsels ... Flaminius, in a fury ... gave out the signal for marching for battle.
Cicero also brought the history of the Clodian family into his speech to discredit Clodia by contrasting Clodia ’ s present behavior with the behavior of her “ great Republican lineages .” Cicero also compared her to Livy ’ s Lucretia, in which he gave the jury a discrediting comparison between Clodia and the perfect example of a Roman woman.
He was appointed by Livy Wijemanne who was by then Director of the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon. Bhareti was mentored by senior broadcasters at the station, such as Vernon Corea who gave him his early training in the art of radio.
Livy and entire
For the entire period covered by Livy, 33 fragments of Antias come from Livy.
Livy and authority
Her function as bestower of authority to rule is also attested in the story related by Livy in which a Sabine man who sacrifices a heifer to Diana wins for his country the seat of the Roman empire.
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.
According to the Augustan-era historian Livy, Numa Pompilius, a Sabine, devised Rome's system of religious rites, including the manner and timing of sacrifices, the supervision of religious funds, authority over all public and private religious institutions, instruction of the populace in the celestial and funerary rites including appeasing the dead, and expiation of prodigies.
Livy viewed the story as legendary ; that is, he repeated accounts that he had read unable to vouch for their authority.
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 regards him as a less trustworthy authority than Fabius Pictor, and Niebuhr considers him the first to introduce systematic forgeries into Roman history.
Livy and Sempronius
Yet another hypothesis for reconciling the numbers cited by Livy for combined strength of the two consular armies and the actual number of participants in the battle of the Trebia would be that Sempronius detached part of his allied contingents for garrison duty on Sicily and for naval service with Marcus Aemilius and Sextus Pomponius.
The poem is probably intended to celebrate the victory gained in 129 by Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus ( consul and himself an annalist ) over the Illyrian Iapydes ( Appian, Illyrica, 10 ; Livy, epit.
Livy and immediately
His story was immediately famous and he became the augur of the king ( see above the episode with king Tarquinius narrated by Livy ).
According to Livy, Numa resided at Cures immediately before being elected king.
Livy states that immediately prior to the war between Rome and Clusium, the Roman senate sent agents to Cumae to purchase grain in anticipation of a siege of Rome.
According to Livy, Numa Pompilius resided in Cures immediately prior to his election as king.
According to Livy, Porsena sought peace by treaty immediately afterward.
Scipio meanwhile again anticipating the consequences immediately broke camp before dawn on that same night ( or the next, in Livy ) and slipping up the right bank of the Po to the west in the same direction from which Hannibal had come crossed the Trebia River, a right-bank tributary of the Po.
According to Livy the conversation went like this: after Maharbal expressed interest on marching to Rome immediately: " I commend your zeal ," he ( Hannibal ) said to Maharbal, " but I need time to weigh the plan which you propose.
Livy claims that immediately after the victory, Maharbal urged Hannibal to push on at once with his cavalry upon Rome itself, promising him that if he did so, within five days he should sup in the Capitol.
Livy and after
Livy depicts Servius ' mother as a captured Latin princess enslaved by the Romans ; her child is chosen as Rome's future king after a ring of fire is seen around his head.
The Roman historian Livy stresses the importance of the augurs: " Who does not know that this city was founded only after taking the auspices, that everything in war and in peace, at home and abroad, was done only after taking the auspices?
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 ".
When Pyrrhus invaded Italy ( 280-278, 275 BCE ), Croton was still a considerable city, with twelve miles of walls, but after the Pyrrhic War, half the city was deserted ( Livy 24. 3 ).
According to Livy, after the overthrow of the monarchy, the Romans created the priesthood of the rex sacrorum, or " king of sacred rites ," to carry out certain religious duties and rituals previously performed by the king.
Virgil states that he named the city in honor of his son, Pallas, although Pausanias, Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus say that Evander's birth city was Pallantium, thus he named the new city after the one in Arcadia.
In the account of Plutarch and Livy, Numa, after being summoned by the Senate from Cures, was offered the tokens of power amid an enthusiastic reception by the people of Rome.
Livy states that the plebeian shrine of Pudicitia eventually fell into disuse after its sacred character had been abused.
According to Livy, after the conflict the Sabine and Roman states merged, and the Sabine king Titus Tatius jointly ruled Rome with Romulus until Tatius ' death five years later.
It may be that a colony was established there after the defeat as Livy afterwards describes Fidenae as a Roman colony.
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.
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.
According to Livy, Brutus ' first act after the expulsion of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was to bring the people to swear an oath never to allow any man again to be king in Rome.
Livy, on the other hand, although repeating Polybius ' numbers, states that after the battle Scipio quietly marched his army into Placentia ( Piacenza ) and went on to Cremona so that there would not be two armies wintering in Placentia ( Piacenza ).
Livy says that the pass was not named after the Carthaginians but after a mountain god.
Traditionally, Romulus fortified one of the first-settled of Rome's seven hills, the Palatine Hill, after founding the city, and Livy states that shortly after its founding Rome was " equal to any of the surrounding cities in her prowess in war ".
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.
Although Livy describes it as being tunnelled out beneath Rome, he was writing centuries after the event.
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