Sentence examples for livy from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Titus Livius, a Roman historian
The wars and the unsettled condition of the Roman world after the death of Caesar in 44 bc probably prevented Livy from studying in Greece, as most educated Romans did.
Livy states that the city's walls had a length of 12 miles (19 km) but that after the wars with Pyrrhus about half the area between them had ceased to be inhabited.
The historian Livy thought the Roman empire started to decay when cooks acquired celebrity status.At a meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) industrial countries in 2009 the assembled leaders put food alongside the global financial crisis on their list of top priorities, promising to find $20 billion for agriculture over three years.
Like Sallust, Livy was inclined to idealize the severe virtues of republican Rome.
Livy began by composing and publishing in units of five books, the length of which was determined by the size of the ancient papyrus roll.
In his letters the statesman Pliny the Younger records that Livy was tempted to abandon the enterprise but found that the task had become too fascinating to give it up; he also mentions a citizen of Cádiz who came all the way to Rome for the sole satisfaction of gazing at the great historian.
Livy was unique among Roman historians in that he played no part in politics.
Whereas The Prince is mostly concerned with princes particularly new princes and is short, easy to read, and, according to many, dangerously wicked, the Discourses on Livy is a "reasoning" that is long, difficult, and full of advice on how to preserve republics.
Like The Prince, the Discourses on Livy admits of various interpretations.
While The Prince is doubtless the most widely read of his works, the Discourses on the Ten Books of Titus Livy perhaps most honestly expresses Machiavelli's personal political beliefs and commitments, in particular, his republican sympathies.
Most importantly, he composed his other major contribution to political thought, the Discourses on the Ten Books of Titus Livy, an exposition of the principles of republican rule masquerading as a commentary on the work of the famous historian of the Roman Republic.
