Livy
Subtitle: Ab urbe condita Book VI (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Contributors: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521422383
Subjects: Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome; General; History / Ancient / Rome; Language Arts & Disciplines-General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Rome--History--Republic, 510-265 B.C; Rome--History--Republic, 510-265 B.C Rome--Hi
First sentence: Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac tribunis consularibus gessere, foris bella, domi seditiones, quinque libris exposui, res cum uetustate nimia obscuras uelut quae magno ex interuallo loci uix cernuntur, tum quod paruae et rarae per eadem tempora litterae fuere, una custodia fidelis memoriae rerum gestarum, et quod etiam si quae in commentariis pontificum aliisque publicis priuatisque erant monumentis, incensa urbe pleraeque interiere.