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    Varro. Two biographies of Lucullus survive today, Plutarch's Lucullus in the famous series of Parallel Lives, in which Lucullus is paired with the Athenian...
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    out on Lucullus's fish. Plutarch, Lucullus .39 Velleius Paterculus, II.33 AD 122, when Plutarch was writing Then Hadrian Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 39 Conventi...
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    The villa of Lucullus was an extensive and sumptuous ancient Roman villa built in the first century BC in Naples by the famous gourmet, general and consul...
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  • Look up lucullus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lucullus may refer to: Licinius Lucullus, any man of the family Licinii Luculli; Lucius Licinius...
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  • Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (116 – soon after 56 BC), younger brother of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, was a supporter of Lucius Cornelius...
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    waited for Lucullus. Upon entering Pontus, Lucullus lay siege to Themiscyra, the legendary home of the Amazons, on the River Thermodon. Lucullus's forces...
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  • Chichester, discovered in 1923, refers to a "Lucullus, son of Amminus". Russell argues that this is the same Lucullus, and that his father was the native British...
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    praetor Lucius Licinius Lucullus, who had just put down a revolt in Campania (the Vettian Revolt), to quell the rebellion. Lucullus, at the head of a 17...
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  • Licinius Lucullus (praetor 67 BC) Lucullus the Younger (Lucius Licinius Lucullus), son of the famous conqueror. Licinia gens Licinius Lucullus, a list...
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  • known as Servilia Minor or Servilia the Younger was the second wife of Lucullus. There is some debate as to who her father was. Older authors who follow...
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  • Chalcedon. Lucullus altered his plans and marched to Cotta's rescue. Meanwhile, Mithridates had moved on to besieging Cyzicus. When Lucullus arrived near...
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    sending the consuls Lucius Licinius Lucullus and Marcus Aurelius Cotta, Lucullus to Cilicia, and Cotta to Bithynia. Lucullus's force would invade Pontus by land...
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  • Lucius Licinius Lucullus was a Roman politician who became consul in 151 BC. Lucullus was sent to Hispania Citerior (Nearer Spain, on the east coast of...
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  • Licinius Lucullus (born c. 144 BC) was a politician and a general of the Roman Republic. He was the eldest son of Lucius Licinius Lucullus, the consul...
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  • by Denys Burrows. Mercellus, the son of Marcus Lucullus, a Roman merchant, has disappeared. Lucullus, fearing a scandal, sends his most trusted man to...
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  • the lower classes, allows Lucullus to call as witnesses portrayed on a triumphal frieze. All the evidence is against Lucullus, except for the fact that...
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  • Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman senator who lived during the reign of the emperor Tiberius. He was suffect consul in AD 31 with Sextus Tedius Valerius...
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    villa. Marcus Licinius L. f. L. n. Lucullus, he was adopted into the gens Terentia as Marcus Terentius M. f. Varro Lucullus, consul in 73 BC, and triumphed...
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  • Die Verurteilung des Lukullus (The Condemnation of Lucullus) is an opera by Paul Dessau to a libretto by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Brecht's...
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  • Svetovidovia lucullus is a species of morid cod found in the polar regions of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. This species grows to 50 cm (20 in) in standard...
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    siege to Cyzicus. Lucullus marched from Phrygia with his five legions and forced Mithridates to retreat to Pontus. In 72 BC Lucullus invaded Pontus through...
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    Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 26.2. Holmes, T. Rice, "Tigranocerta." Journal of Roman Studies 7 (1917): pp. 120-38. Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 29.3. Goldsworthy...
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    Lucullus Virgil McWhorter (January 29, 1860 – October 10, 1944) was an American farmer and frontiersman who documented the historical Native American tribes...
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    siege may have been conducted by or in coordination with Lucius Licinius Lucullus. Julius Caesar began his military service during the siege after his pardon...
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    the Roman armies under Lucullus made significant progress against Mithridates, forcing him to take refuge with Tigranes. Lucullus sent an ambassador named...
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    a strong attachment to both Rome and Pompey. In 73 BC, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, formerly one of Sulla's chief lieutenants, was made proconsul of Cilicia...
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  • The Lucullus Circle was a US society based in New York City. It was inaugurated on 11 December 1951 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel by Claude Philippe. He...
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    legislation to settle the contentious matter of jury reform. L. Licinius Lucullus, one of Sulla's ablest lieutenants, had fought against Mithridates during...
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  • Crassus Dives Mucianus Marcus Licinius Crassus Lucius Licinius Lucullus Litorius Lucullus Mucianus Quintus Ligarius Marcus Livius Salinator Marcus Lollius...
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  • go free, thereby ending the war before Lucullus could relieve him. Appian wrote that Lucius Licinius Lucullus was greedy for fame and money and attacked...
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