Lucilius Lucilius

Lucilius - Definition and Overview

Lucilius is the nomen of the gens Lucilia of ancient Rome.

  • Gaius Lucilius, satirist 2nd century BC
  • Lucilius Junior, friend and correspondent of the younger Seneca.
  • The tomb of Marcus Lucilius Paetus, a military tribune in the time of Augustus, and his sister Lucilia Polla was discovered in Rome, near the Villa Albani, in 1885. It is a round structure about 34 meters across, and believed to have been surmounted by a conical mound of earth 17 meters high.

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