Lucullus

'These things Antiochus said, both then at Alexandria, and many years afterward much more emphatically, when he was with me in Syria a little before he died.

'Catulus, the speech of Lucullus, about the matter itself, so moved me — as that of a learned man, copious, well-prepared, and passing over none of the things that could be said for that cause — yet not so that I should despair of being able to answer him;

'If Lucullus's speech, which was delivered from memory, accurately, and copiously, has swayed you, I am silent, nor do I think you ought to be deterred, if it seems so to you, from changing your opinion.

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.

and the actio Vi bonorum raptorum, introduced by the praetor Lucullus, b.

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.