Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Livy's History of Rome, Vol. 1
Livy is not to be regarded as an historian in the strict sense of the word, as a critical investigator of facts and authorities, and a careful inquirer into the value of the evidence before him 3 in fact, Macaulay goes so far as to say that nohistorian with whom we are acquainted has shown so complete an indifference to truth. Livy's idea of his duty and aim as the historian of the Roman people proceeded from an entirely different standpoint. He wrote as a Roman for Romans: he was absorbed in the contem plation of the greatness of a single city, and that city was Rome: and his main object was to glorify its greatness, following in this the example of the earlier annalists, who began to write at the time of the Punic Wars, and the great struggle with Carthage. This could not fail sometimes to lead him to give an exaggerated estimate of the achieve ments of Rome, and to neglect events of importance occur ring elsewhere, simply because they had no direct bearing on Roman history.
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