Lucilius

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Latin

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lūcīlius m sg (genitive Lūcīliī or Lūcīlī); second declension

  1. A Roman masculine nōmen— famously held by:
    1. Gaius Ennius Lucilius (circa 180–103/2 BC), the earliest Roman satirist and a member of the Scipionic Circle
    2. Lucilius Bassus, a writer mentioned by Cicero as being “of no merit”
    3. Quintus Lucilius Balbus (fl. 40 BC), Stoic philosopher and pupil of Panaetius
    4. Lucilius Junior (fl. AD 1st C.), procurator of Sicily during the reign of the Emperor Nero, a friend and correspondent of L. Annaeus Seneca, and the possible author of the poem Aetna

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Lūcīlius
Genitive Lūcīliī
Lūcīlī1
Dative Lūcīliō
Accusative Lūcīlium
Ablative Lūcīliō
Vocative Lūcīlī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Λουκίλλιος (Loukíllios)

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