HISTORY Copy link • HISTORYA narration, narratio: diminutive, narratiuncula: memoria alicujus rei or de re (account that is in existence, or has been circulated; e.g., de Myrone memoria duplex prodita est). History = collected narrative of events, res or res gestae: memoria rerum gestarum: memoria annalium: res veteres: antiquitas (i. e., ancient history): litterae (as far as contained in books or other written documents, especially as bearing on national customs and manners; Nep., Praef., 2; Pel., 1, 1): historia or historia rerum gestarum (mostly implying a scientific or careful treatment of the subject). Fabulous or mythological history, historia fabularis (Suet.); fabulae. The Roman history, res populi Romani; litterae populi Roman; historia populi Romani. Universal history, perpetua rerum gestarum historia (Cic., Fam., 5, 12, 6). ☞ An adjective with “history” should mostly be translated by a genitive with rerum; thus, sacred, profane history, historia rerum sacrarum, profanarum; or, at all events, historia, quam dicimus sacram, profanam, etc. Grecian history, historia rerum Graecarum, or res Graecae only. To write a history, historiam scribere, componere, or instituere; rerum gestarum historiam complecti: to write the history of his own times, scribere historiam earum rerum, quae sunt ipsius aetate gestae (Cic.): to write the Roman history, res Romanas, or populi Romani, historia comprehendere, perscribere; res Romanas in historiam conferre: to complete a history, historiam perficere, absolvere: to study history, historiae se dare: to be well read or versed in history, historias plures novisse: to be very fond of history, esse magno studio rerum veterum: to have no knowledge of history, nullam memoriam antiquitatis collegisse: Well versed in ancient history, omnis antiquitatis peritissimus.