Lucilius

Latin

Alternative forms

• Lūcīl. (abbreviation)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /luːˈkiː.li.us/, [ɫ̪uːˈkiːlʲiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈt͡ʃi.li.us/, [luˈt͡ʃiːlius]

Proper noun

Lūcīlius m sg (genitive Lūcīliī or Lūcīlī); second declension

1. A Roman masculine nōmen— famously held by:
   1. Gaius Ennius Lucilius (circa 180–103/2 BC), the earliest Roman satirist and a member of the Scipionic Circle
   2. Lucilius Bassus, a writer mentioned by Cicero as being “of no merit”
   3. Quintus Lucilius Balbus (fl. 40 BC), Stoic philosopher and pupil of Panaetius
   4. Lucilius Junior (fl. AD 1st C.), procurator of Sicily during the reign of the Emperor Nero, a friend and correspondent of L. Annaeus Seneca, and the possible author of the poem Aetna

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lūcīlius
Genitive	Lūcīliī Lūcīlī1
Dative	Lūcīliō
Accusative	Lūcīlium
Ablative	Lūcīliō
Vocative	Lūcīlī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Lūcīliānus

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Λουκίλλιος (Loukíllios)

References

• “Lūcīlĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lūcīlĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 923/3.
• “Lūcīlius” on page 1,045/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Lucilia gens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gaius Ennius Lucilius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gaius Ennius Lucilius on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Quintus Lucilius Balbus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Quintus Lucilius Balbus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Lucilius Junior on Wikipedia.Wikipedia