Ab urbe condita

Titus Livius (Livy)

Livy. History of Rome, Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.

their authority as public envoys by using their personal influence to induce him to lay aside all feeling of enmity for the sake of his country.