Lucilius
historical figure · 5 works · 36 mentions · 93 anchored passages
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in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Seneca's addressee and correspondent, a student of Stoic philosophy being guided toward self-mastery.
These things, my Lucilius, must be laid up in the mind, that you may despise the pleasure that comes from the assent of the many.
That you study so stubbornly and, laying all else aside, pursue this one thing, that you make yourself better day by day, I both approve and rejoice;
You will ask, perhaps, what I myself do, who lay these precepts upon you.
On Moral Ends
Roman satirist, author of verses mocking Atilius and dramatizing Scaevola's rebuke of Albucius; also reported on his own restrained readership.
Would that the famous Persius were alive — and Scipio and Rutilius far more so — out of dread of whose judgment Lucilius said he wrote for the people of Tarentum, Consentia, and Sicily!
This very theme Lucilius adorns with much charm and all his salt, where Scaevola speaks admirably:
' From such men I so far dissent that, although Sophocles wrote his Electra with the utmost excellence, I yet think the poor translation by Atilius worth my reading — Atilius of whom Lucilius says,
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman satirist quoted for calling a perjurer 'the son of Neptune.'
If Lucius Tubulus, or Lupus, or Carbo, or the son of Neptune, as Lucilius says, had ever thought there were gods, would they have been so perjured or so foul?
Do you not see the temple dedicated by Aulus Postumius to Castor and Pollux in the forum, do you not see the decree of the senate about Vatinius?
for my reckoning with Lucilius is not the same as it was with you.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman satirist credited as the source of the anecdote about Crassus's single laugh.
Nor indeed was that brow such as was that of the elder Marcus Crassus, who, Lucilius says, laughed but once in all his life, but a tranquil and serene one;
but in that kind let there be, by all means, some Pacideianus of this spirit, as Lucilius tells:
On Providence
The addressee of the discourse, to whom Seneca writes to answer why evils befall good men under a providential order.
You have asked me, Lucilius, how it is that, if the world is governed by providence, so many evils befall good men.
But let these matters be reserved for their proper time—the more so since you do not doubt providence, but only complain of it.