![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of the rest only fragments and the summaries remain. Books 1–10 we have entire books 11–20 are lost and books 21–45 are entire, except parts of 41 and 43–45. The whole work was, long after his death, divided into “decades” or series of ten. Of its 142 books, we have just 35, and short summaries of all the rest except two. Livy’s only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. ![]()
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