LIVIUS,ANDRONICUS, the earliest Roman poet, 240 a. c., was a Greek, and the freedman of M. Livius Sahnator, whose children he educated ; he first turned the Fescennine verses into a regular dialogue and dramatic play ; he wrote Latin comedies and tragedies, but his poetry was obsolete in Cicero's time : he took part in the acting of his plays. 2. SALINATOR, sib-11-nd-tor, Consul 219 B.C., conducted, with ./Emilius Paulus, the Illyrian war, and with him was condemned for unfair division of the booty. He was again Consul 207, with C. Claudius Nero, when he defeated Hasdriibal at the Metainus. From imposing, when censor, an obnoxious tax on salt, he was nicknamed Seilindtor, which was adopted as a cognomen by his descendants. 3. TITUS, tit'-us, the famous historian, born at Padila, 59 B.C., passed the most of his life at Augustus's court in Rome or at Naples, and in old age returned to Padua, where he died, An 77, on the same day as Ovid. He was liberally patronized by Augustus, and his fame was so spread in his lifetime that an inhabitant of Gades traversed Spain, Gaul, and Italy to gratify his curiosity with beholding him. Livius wrote the History pfRome from its foundation to Drusus's death, 9 B.C., in 142 books, of all of which, excepting two, Epitomes are extant ; but of the original books only thirty-five, viz., I.—X. (Foundation to 294 lac.) and XXI.— XLV. (219-167 n.c.), and some small fragments of the remaining 107 are extant. His style is clear, laboured without affectation, diffuse without tediousness, and argumentative without pedantry ; but he wanted one essential of a great historian, impartiality, capability of throwing himself into the period he is describing, and divesting himself of the ideas peculiar to another. His
facts are frequently, from carelessness in re search, or design, coloured to gratify his coun trymen's vanity, and he took little pains to consult even such original documents, on the remoter period, as lay within his reach. 4. See DRUSUS.
Local, z. The inhabitants of Locris, the name of two districts in Greece ; viz., Eastern Locris, the fertile region on the east of Doris and Phocis, and running along the coast from Thessaly and Thermopylm to tia, inhabited in its N. by the Loon e,"-i-C/1e-771/d'-1-i (named from Mount Cnemis, and long subject to the Phocians), with the bay of Malia on the E., and (Eta on the N., who alone of the Locri sent deputies to the Amphictyonic Council ; and in its S. by the LOCR I OPUNTII, named from their capital, Qyzas, and separated from the Epicnemidii by Daphnus, a small territory once held by the Phocians ; and Western Locris, the mountainous region inhabited by the predatory Loon OZOLIE, Pd-51-ee, bounded S. by the Corinthian Gulf, W. lEtolia, N. Doris, E. Phocis. Its capital was Amphissa. 2. EPIZEPHYRII, (i.e. on the west of Greece, or from its being close to and S. of the promontory Zephyrium), a Greek colony S.E. of Bruttium, in Italy, founded 683 c.c., by the Locri Opuntii. It was also called from its inhabitants regarding themselves as descendants of Ajax Oileus, who was born in Naryx. It was famous for a neighbouring temple of Proserpine, and for Zaleucus's legislation, 66o B.C.