"The only great prose writer of the age of Augustus, Titus Livy [...], is the only man of letters who truly makes the ideals of Romanism the center of his art. He is moved to write the history of Rome by love for the traditions and institutions of the republic; his republican ideals did not prevent him from fully sharing the Augustan program of moral and religious restoration. It is above all to Livy that we owe the idealization of the ancient history of Rome and its characters as models of moral and political virtues."
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