Livy: Books I and II; Edited, With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Livy: Books I and II; Edited, With Introduction and Notes

Other peculiarities belong to the earliest stage of the changes which distinguish imperial from republican prose, changes which Livy, among the rest, himself helped much to produce. In these his style is marked, not so much by abso lute novelties, as by the more frequent use of modes of expres sion which are more rare in earlier Latin.

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