Titus Livius (Livy)
Roman historian. Nobles from Spain and Gaul came to Rome solely for his fame. Called "flowing with the milky fountain of eloquence."
Works
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Nobles from Spain and Gaul came to Rome solely for his fame; called "flowing with the milky fountain of eloquence"
"We read that certain nobles came from the farthest borders of Spain and Gaul to Titus Livius, flowing with the milky fountain of eloquence"
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— Lacordaire says "it was Rome that produced Livy before dying" and that Rome inspired Tacitus
"it was Rome that produced Livy before dying"