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LIVY<br />

attention to the language of speeches <strong>and</strong> to employ more generally a vocabulary<br />

that was appropriate to the genre of historical writing, as Coelius Antipater<br />

<strong>and</strong> Sallust had sophisticated it. Such a vocabulary was bound, from the nature<br />

of the subject matter, to contain its fair share of archaic or unusual words.<br />

Livy was criticized stylistically by a contemporary for his ' Patatunitas'<br />

(Paduanness: Quint. Inst. 1.5.56, 8.1.3). The point of the criticism eludes us,<br />

but perhaps it did concern his use of such wide-ranging vocabulary in his<br />

speeches. Certainly no other Roman historian was so inventive.<br />

466<br />

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