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Titus Livius

noun
1.
Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17).  Synonym: Livy.





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"Titus Livius" Quotes from Famous Books



... and had also picked up many Greek notions. Then they seem to have made their history backwards, and worked up their old stories and songs to explain the names and customs they found among them, and the tales they told were formed into a great history by one Titus Livius. It is needful to know these stories which every one used to believe to be really history; so we will tell them first, beginning, however, with a story ...
— Young Folks' History of Rome • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... Pliny, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Titus Livius, Pausanias, on the geography and resources of the ancient nations. See an able chapter on Mediterranean prosperity in Louis Napoleon's History of Caesar. Smith's Dictionary of Ancient Geography is exhaustive. Wilkinson has revealed ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume III • John Lord


Words linked to "Titus Livius" :   historiographer, historian


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