"Livy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page! but these shall be Her resurrection; all beside—decay. Alas, for earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore ...
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux
... rites or situation. I accordingly find, that there was a sacred fountain, whose waters were styled Aquae Ferentinae,—cui numen etiam, et divinus cultus tributus [572]fuit. Here was a grove, equally sacred, mentioned by [573] Livy, and others; where the antient Latines used to hold their chief assemblies. As this grand meeting used to be in a place denominated from fire, it was the cause of those councils being called Feriae Latinae. The fountain, which ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... Livy mentions Cacus as a shepherd, and a person of great strength, and violence. [681]Pastor, accola ejus loci, Cacus, ferox viribus. He is mentioned also by Plutarch, who styles him Caccus, [Greek: Kakkos]. [682][Greek: ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant
... period, the literature of Rome reached its highest purity and terseness. Livy, the historian, secured the friendship of Augustus, and his reputation was so high that an enthusiastic Spaniard traveled from Cadiz on purpose to see him, and having gratified his curiosity, immediately returned home. He took the dry chronicles of his country, drew forth from ...
— Ancient States and Empires • John Lord
... duties, which shows itself in all his writings. Gifted with a mind full of enthusiasm for poetry, he learned from Virgil elegance and dignity in versification. But he had still higher advantages from the perusal of Livy. The magnanimous actions of Roman heroes so much excited the soul of Petrarch, that he thought the men of his ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch
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