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LUCCEIUS, LUCIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 95 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCCEIUS, See also:LUCIUS , See also:Roman orator and historian, friend and correspondent of See also:Cicero. A See also:man of considerable See also:wealth and See also:literary tastes, he may be compared with See also:Atticus. Disgusted at his failure to become See also:consul in 6o, he retired from public See also:life, and devoted himself to See also:writing a See also:history of the Social and See also:Civil See also:Wars. This was nearly completed, when Cicero earnestly requested him to write a See also:separate history of his (Cicero's) consul-See also:ship. Cicero had already sung his own praises in both See also:Greek and Latin, but thought that a See also:panegyric by Lucceius, who had taken considerable See also:interest in the affairs of that See also:critical See also:period, would have greater See also:weight. Cicero offered to See also:supply the material, and hinted that Lucceius need not See also:sacrifice laudation to accuracy. Lucceius almost promised, but did not perform. Nothing remains of any such See also:work or of his history. In the civil See also:war he took the See also:side of See also:Pompey; but, having been pardoned by See also:Caesar, returned to See also:Rome, where he lived in retirement until his See also:death. Cicero's Letters (ed. See also:Tyrrell and See also:Purser), especially Ad See also:Fain. v. 12 ; and See also:Orelli, Onomasticon Tullianum.

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