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And they, in requital, instituted others, called Lucullean games, in honor to him, thus manifesting their love to him, which was of more value to him than all the honor.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Hannibal; Sallustius Lucullus, lieutenant in Britain, for suffering some lances of a new invention to be called "Lucullean;" and Junius Rusticus, for publishing a treatise in praise of Paetus Thrasea and Helvidius
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Hannibal; Sallustius Lucullus, lieutenant in Britain, for suffering some lances of a new invention to be called "Lucullean;" and Junius Rusticus, for publishing a treatise in praise of Paetus Thrasea and Helvidius
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Lucullean gardens are counted the noblest the emperor has.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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He exaggerated every detail, making it appear a veritable Lucullean feast.
The Awakening 2000
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He exaggerated every detail, making it appear a veritable Lucullean feast.
The Awakening 1899
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For I give no higher name to his sumptuous buildings, porticos and baths, still less to his paintings and sculptures, and all his industry about these curiosities, which he collected with vast expense, lavishly bestowing all the wealth and treasure which he got in the war upon them, insomuch that even now, with all the advance of luxury, the Lucullean gardens are counted the noblest the emperor has.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls 46-120? Plutarch 1884
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Mithridatic war, and it was named Lucullean after him, and continued for a long time to have a ready circulation, in consequence of the demands of the war.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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To bear with becoming grace the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; to find our heaven in others 'happiness, and for their sake to sacrifice and suffer wrongs that might be righted with a thread of steel; to live an honest life in a land where Truth doth feed on crusts while Falsehood fattens at Lucullean feasts, requires more true manhood, more moral stamina, more unadulterated sand than to follow a flag into the very jaws of hell or die for the faith in the auto da fe.
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Marsian war, and was admired by Sylla for his constancy and mildness, and always employed in affairs of importance, especially in the mint; most of the money for carrying on the Mithridatic war being coined by him in Peloponnesus, which, by the soldiers’ wants, was brought into rapid circulation, and long continued current under the name of Lucullean coin.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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