Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
book: chapter: pr. Whether the task I have undertaken of writing a complete history of the Roman people from the very commencement of its existence will reward me for the labour spent on it, I neither know for certain, nor if I did know would I venture to say.
- Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - Perseus Digital Library
Translator's preface. THE Latin text of this volume has been...
- Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - Perseus Digital Library
Livy. Ab urbe condita. Robert Seymour Conway. Charles Flamstead Walters. Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1914. 1. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
Translator's preface. THE Latin text of this volume has been set up from that of the ninth edition (1908) of Book I., and the eighth edition (1894) of Book II., by Weissenborn and Müller, except that the Periochae have been reprinted from the text of Rossbach (1910).
The years 179 to 167 are the subject of the last extant pentad, 41 to 45, with one of its leading themes the growing hostility between Rome and Perseus that ended in the defeat and partition of Macedon.
1. IN this preface to a part of my history I may 1 properly assert what many an historian has declared at the outset of his entire work, 2 to wit, that the war which I am going to describe was the most memorable of all wars ever waged —the war, that is, which, under the leadership of Hannibal, the Carthaginians waged with the Roman People.
Full Catalog Record. URN: urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.opp-lat7. Work: Ab Urbe Condita. Textgroup: phi0914. Author: Livy.
6 Νοε 2006 · PREFACE. Whether in tracing the history of the Roman people, from the foundation of the city, I shall employ myself to a useful purpose, I am neither very certain, nor, if I were, dare I say: inasmuch as I observe, that it is both an old and hackneyed practice, later authors always supposing that they will either adduce something more authentic in the facts, or, that they will excel the less ...
