Livy entire

The surviving books of Titus Livius's history of Rome — books 1–10 and 21–45 of the Ab Urbe Condita, from the founding of the city to the war with Macedon — translated in a single voice, with the Latin facing the text. A glossary of every name and a cross-reference index sit alongside.

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What makes this different

A few things, taken together, set this edition apart. Click any to expand.

The surviving history, in one voice.

All thirty-five books that come down to us by one translator under a single style guide — the early legends and the Hannibalic war in one continuous narrative, not a patchwork of hands.

In Livy's own order.

Read book by book as Livy built his history, from Romulus through the Punic wars to the conquest of the Greek east — the story of how a city became an empire.

A scholarly apparatus alongside.

A glossary of every consul, place and people, the Latin facing the text, and cross-references — what plain digital editions of Livy lack.

From the Latin.

Read from Livy's Latin directly, not adapted from a prior English version. The text comes from open scholarly sources.

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