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Livy

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Liv·y  (lv) Originally Titus Livius. 59 b.c.-a.d. 17.
Roman historian and author of Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Foundation of the City), a 142-volume history of Rome from its beginnings to 9 b.c.
Livy [ˈlɪvɪ]
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(Biographies / Livy (59 bc-17 ad) M, Roman, HISTORY: historian) Latin name Titus Livius. 59 bc-17 ad, Roman historian; of his history of Rome in 142 books, only 35 survive
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Noun1.LivyLivy - Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)
Titus Livius
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Livy [ˈlɪvɪ] N → Tito Livio
Livy
n → Livius m
Livy [ˈlɪvɪ] n → Tito Livio
Livy [ˈlɪvɪ] n → Tito Livio


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For so Livy (after he had described Cato Major in these words, In illo viro tantum robur corporis et animi fuit, ut quocunque loco natus esset, fortunam sibi facturus videretur) falleth upon that, that he had versatile ingenium.
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Turner, who was the first victim, broke the news to his form that the headmaster would take them for Latin that day, and on the pretence that they might like to ask him a question or two so that they should not make perfect fools of themselves, spent the last quarter of an hour of the history lesson in construing for them the passage of Livy which had been set for the day; but when he rejoined his class and looked at the paper on which Mr.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.
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