Lucullus
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There’s no better place to cap off a day of eating than with a visit to the outstanding Lucullus Bakery in Richmond Hill.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2016
In a stunning setting of blocks and planes, Lucullus faces a jury of five pale shades: courtesan, teacher, baker, farmer and fishwife.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rarest item on the program was Sessions' 72-minute, one-act opera, The Trial of Lucullus, with a libretto originally written as a radio play by Germany's Bertolt Brecht.
From Time Magazine Archive
The opera represents a courtroom trial in the afterworld, in which the newly dead Roman general Lucullus pleads his case for admission to the Elysian Fields.
From Time Magazine Archive
The comparative seclusion in which men like Lucullus and Hortensius lived in their later years may, perhaps, be accounted for by other reasons than the mere love of ease and pleasure.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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