Title(s):
- Paraphrase of Livy
Period covered:
754 B.C. - 14 A.D.?
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
- Secular history (general)
- Poetry (general)
Remarks:
Servius states that Avienius (commonly called Avienus) turned the whole of Livy into iambic metre. The existence of this work is to be doubted: Murgia (1970) argues convincingly that Servius' text is corrupted and meant a work with scholia on Vergil.
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