Crossword clues for livy
livy
- Latin literary lion
- Roman historian of note
- "History of Rome" author
- Roman writer
- Writer of the history "Ab Urbe Condita"
- Early historian of ancient Rome
- 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)
- Historian whose work covered 142 books
- Ancient Roman historian
- Roman who wrote about the history of Rome
Wikipedia
Titus Livius (; 64 or 59 BCAD 17)—known as Livy in English—was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people – Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Foundation of the City) – covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian dynasty, advising Augustus's grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 AD in a letter to take up the writing of history. Livy and Augustus's wife, Livia, were from the same clan in different locations, although not related by blood.
Usage examples of "livy".
How we longed to find the writings of a Pliny or Livy to give flesh and breath to these meticulous records of acquired wealth.
There was dear Flem on the other side of her heartbroken because Maitland had fled from the Court Sempill was in disgrace and dearest Livy was with him.
Epistles, a Livy in uncial characters, and the precious fragments of the Vatican Virgil, which he gave to Fulvio Orsini in his lifetime.
Of the prose writers of the Augustan age the most distinguished was the historian TITUS LIVIUS, usually called LIVY.
For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr.
He could never have attained the easy elegance of Livy, and he never tells a story with the grace of that unequaled narrator, but he has more vigor in his descriptions, more reality in his characters.
On the other hand, Livy says Iulus was the son of Aeneas by his Latin wife, Lavinia.
I am satisfied that, whatever I may do, I shall never be able to recognize it any more than I can find out in what consists the bad Latin style so constantly alleged against Livy.
On the other hand, Livy says lulus was the son of Aeneas by his Latin wife, Lavinia.
I remembered Hannibal, who, according to Livy, opened up a passage through the Alps by breaking the rocks with axes and other instruments, having previously softened them with vinegar.
One can read in Livy that Hannibal overcame the Alps by means of vinegar.
Livy did not say aceto which means vinegar, but aceta which means axe" In April 1791, Casanova wrote to Carlo Grimani at Venice, stating that he felt he had committed a great fault in publishing his libel, 'Ne amori ne donne', and very humbly begging his pardon.
Nothing could exceed the horror and consternation of the senate on the discovery of the Bacchanalians, whose depravity is described, and perhaps exaggerated, by Livy.
Nothing could exceed the horror and consternation of the senate on the discovery of the Bacchanalians, whose depravity is described, and perhaps exaggerated, by Livy.
Tumer, who was the first victim, broke the news to his form that the headmaster would take them for Latin that day, and on the pretence that they might like to ask him a question or two so that they should not make perfect fools of themselves, spent the last quarter of an hour of the history lesson in construing for them the passage of Livy which had been set for the day.