Associations to the word «Livy»

Wiktionary

LIVY, proper noun. Titus Livius, a Roman historian

Dictionary definition

LIVY, noun. Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats