Age ~32. As the long civil wars end and Octavian takes the name Augustus (27 BC), Livy begins his history of Rome from the founding of the city — Ab Urbe Condita, 142 books in all, of which only these survive. Padua-born, never a senator or a soldier, he writes the whole vast work from the city: a moralist's prose epic of how Rome rose, and how its character was made and lost.

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