"There has been no one since Livy who has made the trumpet utter its terrible sound in military operations."
— Livy

January 1, 1970

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Giovanni Pontano, Actius, printed in Artis Historicae Penus (Basel, 1579), I, 569, quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 146