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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 1, chapter pr. 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.
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27 Σεπ 2016 · Livy. The Roman historian Titus Livius (Livy, first century BCE–first century CE) is known for his History of Rome (Ab urbe condita). Because this classic work is Livy’s sole surviving work, some scholars choose to reference the work by Livy’s name alone: (Livy, 2.2)
The History of Rome, perhaps originally titled Annales, and frequently referred to as Ab Urbe Condita (English: From the Founding of the City), [1] is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius, better known in English as "Livy".
Ab Urbe Condita I–V, ed. R. M. Ogilvie (Oxford Classical Texts), Oxford 1974. Commentary: A Commentary on Livy, Books 1–5, R. M. Ogilvie, Oxford 1965. Studies: T. A. Dorey (editor): Livy (among this collection of essays see particularly ‘The First Decade’ by J. Briscoe), London 1971.
Livy seems to have called his history simply Ab Urbe Condita, “From the Founding of the City,” 20 just as Tacitus was later to call his Annals Ab Excessu Divi Augusti, “From the death of the Divine Augustus.”
On average each surviving book of Ab Urbe Condita consists of fifty-five to sixty “chapters” (in effect, long paragraphs), and the thirty-five books that remain—1 to 10 and 21 to 45—are together nearly as long as Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The ab urbe condita construction is best known through its appear-ance in Latin. Similar combinations of noun and participle are found, however, in the modern languages, where they have been explained, sometimes as Latinisms, sometimes as of independent origin.2 Though not so generally known, similar combinations are also found in Greek,
