. La grandezza che era Roma; un'indagine sulla cultura e la civiltà romana:. eou negozio di bestiame, i nostri metalli - j bronzo, ferro, e stagno. È ugualmente osservante in Gallia e in Germania. Il debito che la storia gli deve per questi documenti ; è incalcolabile. j luci minori come Sallust e Nepos dabled nella storia ] e hanno avuto la fortuna di sopravvivere. Livio, anche se scrisse sotto Augusto, è un vero repubblicano in mente e ; simpatia. La sua maestosa storia di Roma è opera di un | retorista che si appropria a esotare le glorie della Repubblica. ■ anche se a volte mostra un rudimentale cri

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. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. eous store of cattle, our metals— j bronze, iron, and tin. He is equally observant in Gaul and Germany. The debt that history owes to him for these records ; is incalculable. j Lesser lights such as Sallust and Nepos dabbled in history ] and have had the good fortune to survive. Livy, though he wrote under Augustus, is a true Republican in mind and ; sympathy. His majestic history of Rome is the work of a | rhetorician setting out to extol the glories of the Republic. ■ Although he sometimes displays a rudimentary critical instinct ;in comparing his authorities, his main task was to Latinise Polybius and to embellish with first-century style the dry ; annals of Fabius Pictor and Licinius Macer. It is not the i least of our many grievances against the monks that they ;allowed so much of Livy to disappear. The golden age of classical literature covers this last half-century of the Republic and the first half-century of theEmpire. There is, on the whole, little trace of division150. Plate 25. AUGUSTUS AS A YOUTH (Seep. 161) LAST CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC between the general character of Republican and Imperialletters except that with Augustus the principal writers aredefinitely engaged under the Emperors banner of reform. Themain characteristic of both is rhetoric and convention. It isto Alexandria and its state-fostered writing-club that the worldowes convention in literature. The Romans drew theirinspiration from Greece but mainly from Alexandria, and asliterature at Rome was now chiefly in the hands of a clique ofnobles it was possible for a classical style to grow strongthere Cicero and his friends evolved a style, not only ofliterature but even of thought, which could pronounce itself as« urbane, and all else as barbarian or rustic. Roman literatureof the first centuries before and after Christ was as muchunder the domination of epithets like urbane » and humane J^as was the literatur

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