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Livy and Romance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Extract

There are arid patches in Livy, as in most historians, but for these there is ample compensation in passages of brilliant description and characterization.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1942

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References

page 124 note 1 xxx. 3. ‘Inter haec ne Syphacis quidem reconciliandi curam ex animo miserat, si forte iam satias amoris in uxore ex multa copia eum cepisset.’

page 125 note 1 XXX. 12–15.

page 125 note 2 ‘forma erat insignis et florentissima aetas.’

page 126 note 1 ‘ipsum in Hispania iuvenem nullius forma pepulerat captivae. Cf. xxvi. 50 for a very fulsome eulogy of Scipio's chastity.