Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at
Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died
in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy
of Augustus was replacing the republican system that had stood for
over 500 years, presents in splendid style a vivid narrative of
Rome's rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or
751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual
virtues necessary to achieve and maintain such greatness. Of its
142 books, conventionally divided into pentads and decads, we have
1-10 and 21-45 complete, and short summaries (periochae) of all the
rest except 41 and 43-45; 11-20 are lost, and of the rest only
fragments and the summaries remain. The fourth decad comprises two
recognizable pentads: Books 31-35 narrate the Second Macedonian War
(200-196) and its aftermath, then Books 36-40 the years from 191 to
180, when Rome crushed and shrank Antiochus' empire to extend and
consolidate her mastery over the Hellenistic states. This edition
replaces the original Loeb edition by Evan T. Sage.
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