Latin
Lines 1.36-1.37
Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Livy 1.36-37
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The work of a candid man and an individualistic thinker, Livy's history was deeply rooted in the Augustan revival and owed its success in large measure to its moral seriousness. But the detached attempt to understand the course of history through character (which was to influence later historians from Tacitus to Lord Clarendon) represents Livy's great achievement. (Encyclopaedia Britannica Article)
Robert Maxwell Ogilvie