Lucilia (gens)
The Lucilia was a noble family (gens) of ancient Rome. Its men bore the nomen Lucilius.
Members included:
- Gaius Lucilius, satirist 2nd century BC. Lucilius was credited by Horace and others with originating the genre of satire.
- Lucilius Junior, friend and correspondent of the younger Seneca.
- Lucilius, a centurion known as "Fetch-Me-Another" (Cedo Alterum) for his tendency to break his vine staff during beatings, killed in the Pannonian mutiny
- 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 metres across, and believed to have been surmounted by a conical mound of earth 17 metres high.
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