Livy set out to write the whole history of Rome from its founding and got as far as 142 books, of which 35 survive. These are the first eight: the kings, the founding of the republic, the struggle of the orders, the Gauls taking the city, and the Samnite wars. The further the narrative gets from the founding, the more it is history and the less it is legend.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The History of Rome that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: D. Spillan, 1853. Source: Gutenberg 19725.
The text here is D. Spillan’s translation for Bohn’s Classical Library, 1853, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 19725, set unaltered. Spillan’s own footnotes are his and are not printed; his argument to each book is printed at its head and labelled as his.
All 437 chapters of Books I to VIII, numbering checked and contiguous in every book.
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