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Lucilius, the first of Rome's great satirists (148-103 B.C.), famous for the extraordinary vigour with which he lashed the vices of the age. The allusion in the present passage is unknown, though a fragment is preserved containing the name of Macedo and possibly also of Gentius (cp. Baehrens, Fragm. Poet. Rom., p. 168).
the Mantuan poet. Vergil, Ecl. ii.
Serranus, the cognomen of Atilius Regulus, consul 257 B.C., the famous Regulus of the first Punic war.
Curius Dentatus, thrice consul, and victor over the Samnites and Pyrrhus.
Fabricius, general in the war against Pyrrhus. Consul in 282 and 278 B.C. These three great soldiers were selected as types of Roman virtue. Cp. Verg. Aen. vi. 485.
Dion, brother-in-law and son-in-law of Dionysius II, tyrant of Syracuse, the friend and pupil of Plato, and for a brief space tyrant of Syracuse.
Hadrian, Emperor, 117-138 A.D.
Voconius, mentioned here only.