For 10 points, name this Roman historian who wrote Ab Urbe Condita, and on whom "discourses" were written by Machiavelli.
Book Seven of this man's surviving work recounts how Titus Manlius got the cognomen "Torquatus" by duelling with a Gaul, and how a solar eclipse occurred during Manlius's consulship with Caius Marcius Rutilus, after the dedication of the temple of Moneta. This man's work was summarized in the Oxyrhyncus Epitome as well as the more complete Periochae, and this man's account of a conflict with the Curiatii inspired Pierre Corneille's play Horace. Some events of the year 745 in the namesake numbering system were recounted in his monumental work's now-lost final book, number 142. For 10 points, name this Roman historian who wrote Ab Urbe Condita, and on whom "discourses" were written by Machiavelli.
Book Seven of this man's surviving work recounts how Titus Manlius got the cognomen "Torquatus" by duelling with a Gaul, and how a solar eclipse occurred during Manlius's consulship with Caius Marcius Rutilus, after the dedication of the temple of Moneta.
Titus Livy [or Titus Livius]