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On the other hand, all the participants in the programme spoke of Lucilius as /lʊˈsaɪljəs/, which includes the traditional English treatment of the long stressed vowel.
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The Roman Stoic thinker Seneca wrote his most moving letters on the subject to his friend Lucilius while being hunted by the henchmen of the Emperor Nero who finally forced him to commit suicide.
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Classic gags discovered in ancient Roman joke book | Books | guardian.co.uk: We may admire the satires of Horace and Lucilius, but the ancient Romans haven't hitherto been thought of as masters of the one-liner.
Archive 2009-03-08 Bill Crider 2009
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Lucilius, even allowing him all the license of a satiric poet, for prostituting to the public gaze the boys Gentius and Macedo, whose real names he mentions in his verse without any attempt at concealment.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Lucilius, even allowing him all the license of a satiric poet, for prostituting to the public gaze the boys Gentius and Macedo, whose real names he mentions in his verse without any attempt at concealment.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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The fragments of Lucilius make mention of the "cinaedi," in the sense that they were dancers, and in the earlier ages, they were.
Satyricon 2007
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Thus, Lucilius was prized by the Romans, until Horace made them forget him; and Regnier was admired by the French, until the appearance of Boileau; and if old authors who stumble at every step have, notwithstanding, attained great reputation, it is because purer writers have not arisen to open the eyes of their national admirers, as Horace did those of the Romans, and Boileau those of the French.
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We must know what we are to follow, and what we are to avoid; this is the real fruit of the profound study of the belles-lettres; this is what Horace did when he examined Lucilius critically.
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And therefore Seneca adviseth his friend Lucilius, [1945] in his attire and gesture, outward actions, especially to avoid all such things as are more notable in themselves: as a rugged attire, hirsute head, horrid beard, contempt of money, coarse lodging, and whatsoever leads to fame that opposite way.
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It was a chief caveat of [2871] Seneca to his friend Lucilius, that he should not alter his physician, or prescribed physic:
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