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THE STRUCTURE OF LIVY'S HISTORY I. Introduction The loss of three-quarters of Livy's history makes it difficult to under-stand the pattern according to which the great historian of republican Rome planned his work. Various studies have been made', but a comparison of those most often cited suggests that the authors, rather than defining Livy's
The first and third decades (see below) of Livy's work are written so well that Livy has become a sine qua non of curricula in Golden Age Latin. Some have argued that subsequently the quality of his writing began to decline, and that he becomes repetitious and wordy.
1 According to Livy (liv. 10), Gabii was not sacked, but passed peacefully into the hands of Tarquinius. See critical note. 2 In Livy (Iv. 3) Juventa is not mentioned, and Termo appears in the form Terminus. 3 Livy (lx. 3) says 244 years. 4 i.e. Ancus.
From the settlement of Lavinium to the planting of the colony at Alba Longa was an interval of some thirty years.
[5] The Roman troops entered this cave, and many of them were wounded, mostly by stones, owing to the darkness of the place. At length they discovered another entrance, for there was a passage right through the cave, and both mouths of the cavern were filled up with wood.
Unlike historians like Polybius of Megalopolis and Tacitus, Livy never chooses a more thematic approach, clustering, for example, the events in Hispania of several years together. Livy inherited this strict order from earlier Latin historians, the Annalists. We will return to them later.
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.
