Lucilius

[loo-sil-ee-uhs]

noun

1. Gaius c180–102? b.c., Roman satirist.

Lucilius

/ luːˈsɪlɪəs /

noun

1. Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs). ?180–102 _bc , Roman satirist, regarded as the originator of poetical satire

Example Sentences

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism.

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“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.

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“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us,” Seneca wrote.

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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.

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From Lucilius and Juvenal in classical Rome to the brilliant likes of Dave Chappelle and Kate McKinnon today, satirists have delighted and challenged audiences with their pinpricks — sometimes dagger thrusts — of acid humor.

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