| LIVY | Roman scholar whose history of Rome contained 42 books |
| FULLER | Scholar whose Worthies of England includes the story of Walter Raleigh's alleged laying of a cloak before the feet of Elizabeth I (6) |
| HOUSMAN | Classical scholar whose melancholic Loveliest of trees, the cherry now forms part of his celebrated cycle of 63 poems A Shropshire Lad (7) |
| DECADES | Name for the divisions of Livy's history of Rome, each 10 books long, later translated into English to mean "periods of 10 consecutive years" (7) |
| CATO | - The Elder, Roman politician and general, author of the first history of Rome |
| APIS | From the Latin for "bee", a genus of insects whose hexagonal honeycomb cells were pondered some 2,000 years ago by Roman scholar Varro (4) |
| ERNESTRENAN | French scholar whose Life of Jesus (1863) |
| HISTORIAN | Scholar whose work is a thing of the past? |
| DIONYSIUS | ---------of Halicarnassus, Greek historian and rhetorician, the author of a history of Rome (9) |
| LAMECH | A descendant of Cain, whose history is in Genesis, 4 (6) |
| SALT | Seasoning whose history is the subject of a Mark Kurlansky book |
| ERASMUS | Dutch humanist and scholar whose classical satire In Praise of Folly was dedicated to Sir Thomas More (7) |
| MOORE | Scholar whose poem A Visit from St Nicholas names Santa Claus's reindeer and captures the anticipation of the night before Christmas (5) |
| ELDER | Pliny the -; Roman scholar who wrote Naturalis Historia (5) |
| ATTICUS | Roman scholar in Greece and catsuit designer |
| VARRO | Marcus Terentius ___ (Ancient Roman scholar/writer) |
| CICERO | Roman scholar and statesman (6) |
| UTES | People whose history and contemporary culture are the focus of a museum in Montrose, Colorado |
| HASTINGS | Seaside town and Cinque Port in East Sussex whose history, including its now-ruined Norman motte and bailey castle established by William the Conqueror in 1066, is stitched into the very fabric of the |
| ROME | City whose history is described by Livy in Ab Urbe Condita Libri (4) |
