Lucullus
historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 13 anchored passages
in the texts
Lucullus
Roman statesman and general who delivers the main Antiochean speech defending the possibility of cognition against the New Academy's skepticism.
'Nor is this against you;
— whom you too, Lucullus, concede to hold no opinion.
" In the first place there is a difference, but let us pass that by;
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman general and statesman, cited as an example of one who created a private sea-water enclosure at his villa.
sicut Lucullus exciso apud Neapolim monte ad villam suam maria admisit.
Hinc apparere potest quae mens Pauli fuerit, cum dicit, si maris proprium ius ad aliquem pertineat, uti possidetis interdictum ei competere.
Thus Lucullus once brought the water of the sea to his villa by cutting a tunnel through a mountain near Naples.
Institutes of Roman Law
Praetor credited with introducing the actio Vi bonorum raptorum, 77 b.c.
and the actio Vi bonorum raptorum, introduced by the praetor Lucullus, b.
Apologeticum
Roman general credited with introducing cherries to Italy from Pontus.
Otherwise, if Liber is a god because he showed the vine, then Lucullus, who first introduced cherries from Pontus into Italy, was ill-treated, in that he was not therefore consecrated as the author of a new fruit, when he was its discoverer.