• Gaius Lucilius (180, 168 or 148 BC – 103 BC) was the earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain. A Roman citizen of the equestrian...
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    Publius Cornelius Dolabella in Cilicia, in 43 BC. Gaius Lucilius, a friend of Cicero and Milo. Lucilius, a partisan of Brutus, who fought at the Battle...
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  • Solinus Gaius Julius Vindex, governor of Lusitania Gaius Laelius Gaius Licinius Stolo Gaius Livius Drusus Gaius Lucilius Gaius Lutatius Catulus Gaius Maecenas...
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  • Aurunca (modern Sessa Aurunca) and she was a sister of satiric poet Gaius Lucilius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus. Strabo's paternal...
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    Shakespeare's Globe The Honest Whore Castruccio 1999 Julius Caesar Gaius Lucilius Antony and Cleopatra Menas / Scarus 2003 In Arabia We'd All Be Kings...
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    Greek writer, grammarian, and historian Bion of Smyrna, Greek poet Gaius Lucilius, Roman satirist Lutatius Catulus, Roman poet, orator and historian Lucius...
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    critically was Quintilian, who invented the term to describe the writings of Gaius Lucilius. The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are...
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  • satire can be found in ancient Greek novels, in the Roman satires of Gaius Lucilius and Horace, and in early Christian literature, including the Gospels...
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    Greek nickname Agelastus (the unlaughing or grim) by his contemporary Gaius Lucilius, the inventor of Roman satire, who asserted that he smiled once in his...
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    work of satires, another literary genre that Romans saw as their own, Gaius Lucilius, a second-century BC poet, draws comparisons between anal sex with boys...
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