History of Rome
Livy
cited 16 times by 5 works in the library · not held
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 9 citations · 28 passages
ch. 10 3 passages anchored here · ch. 11 2 passages anchored here · ch. 12 · ch. 14 · ch. 15 2 passages anchored here · ch. 21 2 passages anchored here · ch. 32 · ch. 33 3 passages anchored hereCited across three paragraphs as a historical authority.
Livy too, speaking of king Evander, describes him as reigning more by personal authority than by his regal power;
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Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 3 neutral 4 citations
Livy is named directly in the citation note attached to the discussion of peregrini dediticii.
Peregrini dediticii.
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Caesar Plutarch 1 citation
Livy is explicitly named twice as the authority insisting on the truth of the Patavium portent.
And to begin with, according to Livy, he discerned the time of the battle, and said to those present that even then the event was in progress and the men were going into action.
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Marcellus Plutarch 1 refuted 1 citation
Livy is cited as disputing the scale of the reported victory and casualties at Nola, contradicting the more favorable account.
Livy, however, will not affirm that the victory was so great nor that so many of the enemy were slain, but says that this battle brought great renown to Marcellus and to the Romans a wonderful courage after their disasters.
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Sulla Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation
Livy is explicitly named as the source of a specific reported opinion about Sulla's marriage.
On the theme of this marriage many verses were sung in ridicule of him by the common people, and many of the leading men were indignant at it, deeming him, as Livy says, unworthy of the woman although they had judged him worthy of the consulship.
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