Lucilius
Americannoun
noun
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Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2024
“I am far from being a tolerable person, much less a perfect one,” he admitted to his friend Lucilius, to whom the “Letters From a Stoic” are addressed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
His “Letters” were written to Lucilius while the latter was undergoing what we’d now call a midlife crisis, and they brim with both affection and rigor.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us,” Seneca wrote.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
C. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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