Livy

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I. Lingua Latina

  • veni, vidi, vici (Caesar)
  • alea iacta est (Caesar)
  • Catullus, Poem 85
    odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris
    nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
  • Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.830
    nihil igitur mors est
  • Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? (Cicero)
  • Laudandus, ornandus, tollendus (Cicero on Octavian)
  • Festina lente (a favorite saying of Octavian/Augustus)
  • From Livy's Ab urbe condita
  1. ego me etsi peccato absolvo, supplicio non libero (Lucretia)
  2. et facere et pati fortia Romanum est (Mucius Scaevola)

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Remaining from Last Week: Augustus' Foreign Policy, Art, and Succession Troubles

II. Titus Livius (c. 64 BCE- c. 12 CE)

  • Historiography in Rome
  • The Ab Urbe Condita
  • Livy on the Beginning of the Republic: exempla virtutis
  1. Lucretia
  2. Brutus and the Expulsion of the Tarquins
  3. Brutus' sons
  4. Horatius
  5. Mucius Scaevola
  6. Cloelia
  • Livy as a Roman and an Augustan

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