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Lūcīlĭus, a
* The name of a Roman gens, whose most celebrated members were
* The poet C. Lucilius, a native of the Campanian Suessa, formerly Aurunca (hence, Auruncae alumnus, Juv. 1, 19), the father of Roman satire, Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 72; Quint. 10, 1, 92: vis Lucilii,Arn. 5, 169 (alluding to the verse of Lucilius: vis est vita, vides, vis nos facere omnia cogit, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 63 Müll.); cf. Hor. S. 1, 4, 6; 1, 10, 1; 2, 1, 62; Juv. 1, 65.
* Lūcĭlĭānus, a, um, adj., Lucilian, of the poet Lucilius: character,Varr. R. R. 3, 2: versus,Plin. 36, 25, 61, § 185: aetas,Macr. S. 2, 12: fornix, prob. a satire bearing this title, Arn. 2, 45.
* Lucilius Bassus, a writer of no merit, Cic. Att. 12, 5.—Hence
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