perscribere_.] [Footnote 3: "My share,"-- _pro virili parte_, or, "to the best of my ability."] [Footnote 4: "Historians."-- Those mentioned by Livy himself are Q.
Fabius Pictor, Valerius Antias, L.Piso, Q.AElius Tubero, C.Licinius Macer, Coelius, Polybius, etc.] [Footnote 5: "Hastening to these later times."-- The history of the recent civil wars would possess a more intense interest for the Romans of the Augustan age.] [Footnote 6: "From every care,"-- the fear of giving offence by expressing his opinions freely, and the sorrow, which, as a patriot, he could not but feel in recording the civil wars of his countrymen.] [Footnote 7: "Acquired."-- This refers to the whole period antecedent to the time when Ap.

Claudius carried the Roman arms beyond Italy against the Carthaginians; (2) _extended_, from that time till the fall of Carthage; (3) _sinking_, the times of the Gracchi; (4) _gave way more and more_, those of Sulla; (5) _precipitate_, those of Caesar; (6) _the present times_, those of Augustus after the battle of Actium .-- _Stocker._].