How To Use Lucullus In A Sentence
- He slept throughout the entire journey and woke only toward the end of the afternoon as we jolted down the narrow lane to Misenum, where Lucullus had his—well, I was going to call it a house, but the word hardly fits that veritable palace of pleasure, the Villa Cornelia, which he had bought and extended on the coast. CONSPIRATA
- Both had been stuck outside the city for a long while waiting for the Senate to vote them their triumphs—years, in the case of Lucullus, who had whiled away his time building a vast retreat at Misenum on the Bay of Naples as well as his mansion north of Rome. CONSPIRATA
- Alas, I may say with Lucullus, if I could have anticipated the honor of your visit, I would have prepared for it.
- Lucullus, Catulus, and Hortensius, to Cato and Brutus, he finally adopted the suggestion of Atticus to gratify Varro by giving him a share in the dialogue together with Atticus and himself (_ad Att. _ xiii. 13, 1, 'commotus tuis litteris, quod ad me de Varrone scripseras, totam Academiam ab hominibus nobilissimis abstuli transtulique ad nostrum sodalem et ex duobus libris contuli in quattuor'). The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
- When Ahenobarbus taxed him in the House with deliberate destruction of Roman property — siegeworks and camps especially — Lucullus simply looked down his nose and said he thought the new governor would want to start in his own way. The First Man in Rome
- He slept throughout the entire journey and woke only toward the end of the afternoon as we jolted down the narrow lane to Misenum, where Lucullus had his—well, I was going to call it a house, but the word hardly fits that veritable palace of pleasure, the Villa Cornelia, which he had bought and extended on the coast. CONSPIRATA
- Mithridatic war being then under debate, Marcus declared that it was not finished, but only respited for a time, and therefore, upon choice of provinces, the lot falling to Lucullus to have Gaul within the Alps, a province where no great action was to be done, he was ill-pleased. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence
- Sulla's successor in the eastern command, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, became a byword for luxury and personal indulgence.
- One might believe Lucullus thought his money really captive and barbarian, so wantonly and contumeliously did he treat it. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
