Livy

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 14s

Livy — in Latin.

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If a word this common still cannot be traced to a single root, what does its ubiquity buy — reach, or forgetting?

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PYRRHUS in Siciliam traiecit. cum inter alia prodigia fulmine deiectum esset in Capitolio Iovis signum, caput eius per haruspices inventum est. Curius Dentatus cos. cum dilectum haberet, eius qui citatus non responderat bona primus vendidit; iterum Pyrrhum ex Sicilia in Italiam reversum vicit et Italia expulit. Fabricius censor P. Cornelium Rufinum consularem senatu movit, quod is x pondo argenti facti haberet. lustro a censoribus condito censa sunt civium capita CCLXXI ccxxiiii. cum Ptolemaeo, Aegypti rege, societas iuncta est. sextilia , virgo Vestalis, damnata incesti viva defossa est. coloniae deductae sunt Posidonia et Cosa. carthaginiensium classis auxilio Tarentinis venit, quo facto ab his foedus violatum est. res praeterea contra Lucanos et Bruttios et Samnites feliciter gestas et Pyrrhi regis mortem continet.
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 14s 1

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.