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Titus Livius ( ca. 59 B.C. - ca. 17 A.D. ) known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian family, advising Augustus' grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 AD in a letter to take up the writing of history. Livy and Augustus' wife, Livia, were from the same clan in different locations, although not related by blood.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 2,357 ratings · 114 reviews · 305 distinct works

	The History of Rome, Books I-V: The Early History of Rome by Livy, Aubrey de Selincourt (Translator), Robert Maxwell Ogilvie 3.79 avg rating — 1,562 ratings — published -29 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The History of Rome, Books XXI-XXX: The War With Hannibal by Livy, Aubrey de Selincourt (Translator), Titus Livy 4.08 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1965 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Rome and Italy: Books VI-X of the History of Rome from its Foundation by Livy, Betty Radice (Translator), Robert Maxwell Ogilvie (Introduction) 4.01 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The History of Rome, Books XXXI-XLV: Rome and the Mediterranean by Livy, Henry Bettenson (Translator), A.H. McDonald (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1976	My rating:
	Livy: History of Rome, Books 1-2, (LCL, 114) 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1919 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The History of Rome, Books 1-5 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	AB Urbe Condita - Libro XXI 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1919 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Historia Romana: Primera Década. (Sepan Cuantos, #304) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published -27 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The History of Rome 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Histoire romaine, livre I à V 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999	My rating:

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“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.”
― Livy, The History of Rome, Books I-V: The Early History of Rome

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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”
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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
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