(See page 181.) LIVY (59 B.C .-- 17 A.D.).
TITUS LIVIUS left a history of Rome, of which thirty-five books have been preserved.

(See page 181.) PHAEDRUS.
PHAEDRUS, a writer of fables, flourished in the reign of Tiberius (14-37).

He was originally a slave.

His fables are ninety-seven in number, and are written in iambic verse.
SENECA (8 B.C .-- 65 A.D.) For an account of this writer see the chapter on the Emperor Nero, page 189.
CURTIUS.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS was a historian who lived in the reign of Claudius (50 A.D.).

He wrote a history of the exploits of Alexander the Great.
PERSIUS (34-62).
PERSIUS, a poet of the reign of Nero, was a native of Volaterrae.