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Category Archives: Livy Book 1
Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Our last project for Livy was to translate the preface unaided by any commentary or another English translation. I had read the preface in English two or three times prior, so I wasn’t going in completely blind. Even so, a … Continue reading
Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 59 Brutus, since those men were taken up with their mourning, holding before himself the blade, dripping with gore, drawn out from Lucretia’s wound says, “By this blood most chaste, prior to the royal injustice, I swear, and you … Continue reading
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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 57 The siege of Ardea ; and a contest of womanly virtue. The Rutuli held Ardea, a tribe, as in that region and in that time, very powerful with riches ; and those very riches were the cause of … Continue reading
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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 54 Sextus Tarquinius treacherously hands over Gabii to his father. Thenceforth, he was invited to public counsels. Then, when he said that he agreed with the long-standing Gabii concerning other matters, for whom these things were more familiar, he … Continue reading
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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 53 War with the Volscians. Sextus Tarquinius, feigning to be a deserter, presents himself at Gabii. Nor, although the king was unjust in peace, was he yet a crooked leader of war ; moreover he could equal better kings … Continue reading
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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 48 The brutal murder of Servius and the inhuman conduct of his daughter Tullia. Servius, roused by an agitated messenger, suddenly interrupted this oration with a great voice from a vestibule of the senate-house, “Tarquinius,” he said, “what is … Continue reading
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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 47 At the instigation of Tullia, Tarquinius seizes the throne. When, day by day, the old age of Tullius truly approached with increasing troubles, the throne also began to be troubled ; for already the woman looked from one … Continue reading
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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 46 The crimes of Tullia and of Lucius Tarquinius ; Their plot against Servius. But this event did not lessen the hope in Tarquinius of seeking the throne ; on the contrary (it grew) more fiercely in him, inasmuch … Continue reading
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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 44 Purification of the army and the enclosure of the city by a wall. With the census completed, which he had expedited concerning unregistered citizens by the fear of a law passed with threats of chains or death, he … Continue reading
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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I
Chapter 42 Tullius secures his power by matrimonial, military, and political measures. And Servius did not secure his power by public plans any more than by private, and so that, in the way that the minds of the children of … Continue reading
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