Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Roman annalist, living probably in the first century BC, wrote a history, in at least twenty-three books, which began with the conquest of
RomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million...
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GaulsThe Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France and Belgium, from the Iron Age through the Roman period. They spoke the Continental Celtic language called Gaulish....
and went on to the death of Sulla or perhaps later.
LivyTitus Livius , known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC...
freely used Quadrigarius in part of his work (from the sixth book onwards). A big fragment is preserved in
Aulus GelliusAulus Gellius , was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up at Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office...
(ix. 13), giving an account of the single combat between Manlius Torquatus and Gaul.
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Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Roman annalist, living probably in the first century BC, wrote a history, in at least twenty-three books, which began with the conquest of
RomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million...
by the
GaulsThe Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France and Belgium, from the Iron Age through the Roman period. They spoke the Continental Celtic language called Gaulish....
and went on to the death of Sulla or perhaps later.
LivyTitus Livius , known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC...
freely used Quadrigarius in part of his work (from the sixth book onwards). A big fragment is preserved in
Aulus GelliusAulus Gellius , was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up at Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office...
(ix. 13), giving an account of the single combat between Manlius Torquatus and Gaul. His language was antiquated and his style dry, but his work was considered important.