Titus Livius (59 BC in Padua – AD 17 in Padua), known in English as Livy (/ˈlɪvi/ LIV-ee), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City'', covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own lifetime.
Titus Livius and Lucius Annaeus Florus. "Von Ankunfft unnd Ursprung des Römischen Reichs". (Strasbourg: Th. Rihel, 1581). Fol. Titel in woodblock border, (26), 887, (20) pp. With 131 woodblocks in the text. Orig. parchment binding from the time.