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
“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us,” Seneca wrote.
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
Nothing can be rougher and harsher than the hexameters of Lucilius, or cruder than his expression.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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