Quotes About Livy

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

Livy's worldview was moral and romantic, and most thinking people of his age shared it. In the preface to his magnum opus, he stated that writing history was a way of escaping the troubles of the modern world: "Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every kind of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective.

The army mustered by this new Macedonian Perseus, in 171 BCE, according to the Roman historian Livy

So what's going on?" Livy asked after spitting out a bit more blood. "Got a job for you." "Will I be whoring?" "Not this time. I'm sorry." "You know how I love to whore," Livy stated with that flat tone that freaked people out, because no one ever knew whether she was joking or not.

Your family is coming here?" a voice from the doorway eagerly asked. Livy snarled. "Kyle—" "Honey badgers? Honey badgers are coming to stay with us?

As he struck the terrible, fratricidal blow, he shouted (in Livy's words): 'So perish anyone else who shall leap over my walls.' It was an appropriate slogan for a city which went on to portray itself as a belligerent state, but one whose wars were always responses to the aggression of others, always 'just'.

Livy tells how in 214 BCE individual Romans were called upon to pay directly to man the fleet: a nice indication of the patriotism that surrounded the war effort, of the emptiness of the public treasury, but also of the cash that there still was in private hands, despite the crisis.