[From the marble in the Berlin Museum. In the Florence collection there are three Busts of him. The portrait of Seneca was identified as early as the sixteenth century by a medallion engraved with his name, possessed by Cardinal Mattei. A Bust in bronze was found at Herculaneum.] 122*. LIVY--TITUS LIVIUS. _Roman Historian._ [Born at Petavium (Padua), B.C. 59. Died A.D. 17. Aged 76.] Little is known of the life of this famous historian, save that he enjoyed the patronage and friendship of Augustus, and established a wide and instantaneous fame in his own time. The great and only extant work of Livy is his History of Rome. It originally consisted of 142 books: 35 only have come down to us--of the remainder we have merely short summaries. Livy is an admirable weaver together, without sifting criticism, of received records and traditions. His reader glides on the stream of his flowing narration. His style is lucid, animated, picturesque. But in the annals of the warlike republic--that setter up and putter down of kings--that mistress of the nations--we look for and desire, more stern and majestic strength;--a profounder disclosure of the heroic political wisdom, which steadily advanced in building up the most memorable empire in the world. [Bust yet to come.] (_Leaving the Court of Roman Generals, we proceed to the Nave. The numbers of the Portrait Gallery continue into the Nave from left to right_.) 123. HADRIAN. _Roman Emperor._ For life, see No. 46. 124. LIVIA DRUSILLA. _Roman Empress._ For life, see No. 93. [A fine statue of Livia will be seen in the vestibule adjoining the Court of the Generals, No. 237.] 125. JULIUS CÆSAR. _Roman Dictator._ For life, see No. 111. 126. SCIPIO AFRICANUS. _Roman General._ For life, see No. 109. 127. SCIPIO AFRICANUS. _Roman General._ For life, see No. 109. 128. DECIMUS CŒLIUS BALBINUS. _Roman Statesman and Emperor_, A.D. 238. [Date, and place of birth unknown.] A man of Consular dignity, who had governed in nearly all the peaceful provinces of the Empire, and was esteemed and beloved by all ranks; when, upon the death of the Gordiani in Africa, he was selected as one of the Emperors to oppose the ferocious Maximinus--Pupienus being the other. Soon after the death of Maximinus, both Balbinus and Pupienus were murdered by the Prætorians, who remembered to their disadvantage the prodigal liberality of their lately-slain tyrant. They reigned only four months. Balbinus was celebrated for his oratory and poetry. [From the marble in the Capitoline Museum, at Rome.] THE ITALIAN PORTRAITS. INTRODUCTION.