The first (*) ten books of this historian's major work are examined in that work, which argues that despotism and monarchy are inferior to government by a republic.
This author's upbringing in the strictly moral city of Patavium may be the origin of his emphasis on how the moral decline of Rome was rooted in its neglect of religion. This author is the source of an anecdote in which "Vae victis" is said to men complaining about scales rigged to under-measure the gold owed to the victorious Brennus. This author's magnum opus is examined in a work that gives the goal of a good constitutional government as enabling vivere libero, as opposed to vivere sicuro. The first (*) ten books of this historian's major work are examined in that work, which argues that despotism and monarchy are inferior to government by a republic. This historian's major work covers events from contemporary events during Augustus' reign to the time of Aeneas, though its chronology begins with the founding of Rome. For 10 points, name this author of Ab Urbe Condita whose work titles some discourses by Machiavelli.
This author's upbringing in the strictly moral city of Patavium may be the origin of his emphasis on how the moral decline of Rome was rooted in its neglect of religion.
Livy [or Titus Livius Patavinus]