Livy - The Early History of Rome, Penguin Classics Books 1-5
Aubrey De Selincourt (translated), R. M. Ogilvie (Introduction)
Number of quotes: 5
Book ID: 314 Page: 22
Section: 1A
In 507 B.C. the form of government at Rome changed. The kings were expelled and replaced by a college of two annual magistrates….
Quote ID: 9118
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 314 Page: 34
Section: 5D
I would then have him trace the process of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.
Quote ID: 7644
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 314 Page: 54
Section: 1B
Rome had originally been founded by force of arms; the new king now prepared to give the community a second beginning, this time on the solid basis of law and religious observance.
Quote ID: 9116
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 314 Page: 56
Section: 1B
Once Rome’s neighbours had considered her not so much as a city as an armed camp in their midst threatening the general peace; now they came to revere her so profoundly as a community dedicated wholly to worship, that the mere thought of offering her violence seemed to them like sacrilege.PJ fn reference: Livy, The Early History of Rome, 1.21.
Quote ID: 7645
Time Periods: 01
Book ID: 314 Page: 56
Section: 1B
By these means the whole population of Rome was given a great many new things to think about and attend to, with the result that everybody was diverted from military preoccupations. They now had serious matters to consider; and believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion and so deeply imbued with the sense of their religious duties, that the sanctity of an oath had more power to control their lives than the fear of punishment for lawbreaking.“Thus two successive kings each, though in opposite ways, added strength to the growing city: Romulus by war, Numa by peace. Romulus ruled thirty-seven years, Numa forty-three. When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.”
PJ fn reference: Livy, The Early History of Rome, 1.21.
Quote ID: 9117
Time Periods: 0
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