Livy

Family: Roman · Role: historian · First appears: Comparision of Pelopidas with Marcellus

Comparision of Pelopidas with Marcellus

• with Hannibal (Livy is cited as a source concerning Hannibal.) “I myself, indeed, have followed rather Livy, Caesar, Cornelius Nepos, and, among the Greeks, king Juba, in stating that the troops of Hannibal were in some encounters routed and put to flight by Marcellus; but certainly these defeats conduced little to the sum of the war.”
• with Marcellus (Livy is cited as a source concerning Marcellus.) “I myself, indeed, have followed rather Livy, Caesar, Cornelius Nepos, and, among the Greeks, king Juba, in stating that the troops of Hannibal were in some encounters routed and put to flight by Marcellus; but certainly these defeats conduced little to the sum of the war.”

Caesar

• friends with Caius Cornelius “one Caius Cornelius, who had the character of a good augur, the fellow-citizen and acquaintance of Livy, the historian”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.