Scipio

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1848, fol. 48v — opening of Livy Book 23, illuminated by Bartolomeo della Gatta, Rome, c. 1475–1480

Ab Urbe Condita, Volume VI: Books 23–25

Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume VI (Books 23–25), translated by F. G. Moore — the aftermath of Cannae, the defection and eventual siege of Capua, the fall of Syracuse and death of Archimedes, and the reverses in Spain.

First page of Vat. lat. 5757, a palimpsest manuscript from Bobbio

De Re Publica

Reading companion and full text of Cicero's De Re Publica (On the Republic), translated by Clinton W. Keyes — a dialogue in six books examining the best form of government, the nature of justice, and the duties of the ideal statesman, culminating in the celebrated Dream of Scipio.

Vat. gr. 124, f. 1r. Opening of Polybius, Histories Book I, with ornamental title panel (ΠΟΛΥΒΙΟΥ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΩΝ Α) and decorated initial. Constantinople, 10th century. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.

Histories

Reading companion for the Histories of Polybius, covering Rome's rise to Mediterranean dominance from the First Punic War to the destruction of Carthage.