Associations to the word «Livy»

Wiktionary

LIVY, proper noun. Titus Livius, a Roman historian

Dictionary definition

LIVY, noun. Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17).

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.