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Excerpt from Titi Livi Ab Vrbe Condita Liber I: Edited With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary
OF the life of Titus Livius we know very little. He was born in 59 or 57 B. C. At Patavium (padua), at that time the most wealthy and populous of the cities of northern Italy. His family was in a high position there; he received a good education and was a student, if not a teacher, of rhetoric. When he was still a young man, he came to Rome and was admitted to friendly relations with Augustus, if he did not actually join that literary circle of which Virgil and Horace were members. To such relations his republican sympathies were no bar; it seems that he favoured the cause of Pompeius, Brutus, and Cassius in the Civil War; Augustus, indeed, once called him a Pompeian but the remark would not have been made if it had not been meant kindly, and the Emperor had no wish to insist on any distinction between his own government and that of the Republic. Livy stayed at Rome for more than forty years, enjoying a great reputation, and it was not till after the death of Augustus that he returned in his Old age to Patavium, where he died in a.d. 17. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
