"I confess to you that whenever, in my absence, I thought of my country, what I saw in my mind’s eye were these hills and plains, the Tiber and this beloved countryside, and the familiar sky under which I was born and bred. I can but hope that the love of these things will move you now to stay, and that the loss of them will not, in after years, tear your hearts with vain regret.”
livy
On Art
“Greek writers had style; Latin writers had a style—each his own—which is a very different thing.
They knew that ‘art was to conceal art…’ ”
- Aubrey de Selincourt, in his introduction to Livy’s “The Early History of Rome”