The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the Ab Urbe Condita
Titus Liviuswas born in Patavium (modern Padua) in northern Italy around 59 BC. Given that he was able to devote so much of his life to writing history, it is reasonable to suppose that Livy's family must have been fairly wealthy. This work, which he called theAb Urbe Condita-"From the Founding of the City"- took Livy forty years to write.