Livy

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Titus Livius (around 59 BC - 17 AD), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC through the reign of Augustus.

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Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
- Translation: The best known evil is the most tolerable.
- History, Book XXIII, sec. 3

Potius sero quam numquam.
- Translation: Better late than never.
- History, Book IV, sec. 23

Sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea!
- Translation: And so be damned, whomever shall jump over my walls!
- History, Book I, sec. 7 (Spoken when Romulus slew his brother Remus for jumping over the walls of his encampment (soon to be Rome) in mockery)

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