There are arid patches in Livy, as in most historians, but for these there is ample compensation in passages of brilliant description and characterization.
page 124 note 1 xxx. 3. ‘Inter haec ne Syphacis quidem reconciliandi curam ex animo miserat, si forte iam satias amoris in uxore ex multa copia eum cepisset.’
page 125 note 1 XXX. 12–15.
page 125 note 2 ‘forma erat insignis et florentissima aetas.’
page 126 note 1 ‘ipsum in Hispania iuvenem nullius forma pepulerat captivae. Cf. xxvi. 50 for a very fulsome eulogy of Scipio's chastity.