Livy, Titus Livius

Livius, a Roman historian, was born in Patavium. He settled in Rome sometime before 29 BC, when he began his history of Rome from her foundation tot he death of Nero Claudius Drusus (9 BC). This momentous work of 142 books became the foundation of historical writing through to the 18th-c, and placed him at the forefront of Latin writers.