Livy

“People in high school rarely poke each other anymore,” said Livy Shutkin, 14.

But Virgil and Cicero would certainly be on the list; perhaps Livy and Tacitus; Boccaccio and Dante.

In the same passage, the story of Lucretia is told in full, on the authority of Livy, as here.

In point of artistic unity he is superior to Livy and equal to Thucydides, whom he resembles in conciseness of style.

We require life in history, and it is for their vividness that the writings of Livy and Tacitus will be perpetuated.

How effective these could be made is seen in the speeches inserted in their histories by Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus.

She studied the Bible, with the keen fresh interest of one who comes new to it, and she read Livy and Montaigne.