ABSTRACT
Titvs Livivs, familiar in English under the name of Livy, is the greatest surviving example, perhaps absolutely the greatest, of that school of history to which attention has already been drawn. Besides Livy, there is one other Augustan historian of whose work we are able to form something like an adequate conception, although we have lost his writings and are dependent on an epitome. Livy and Trogus, or rather Justin, practically make up the historiography of this period for us; but there were other writers in that field, whose works we have lost completely save for some few references and fragments. Doubtless also a man like Livy could derive from such artificialities a facility and a mastery of telling phrase which his unusual abilities could transmute into the splendidly effective speeches of his historical characters.
