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Gaius Lucilius

180 BC - 102 BC

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Gaius Lucilius (180, 168 or 148 BC – 103 BC) was the earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaius Lucilius has received more than 127,975 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Gaius Lucilius is the 873rd most popular writer (up from 876th in 2019), the 1,004th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,023rd in 2019) and the 77th most popular Italian Writer.

Gaius Lucilius was a Roman poet and satirist who is most famous for his satirical poem, "Satires."

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Notable Works

Satirarum quae ex libro tertio supersunt
1836
Remains of Old Latin, Volume III, The Law of the Twelve Tables
Fiction
The Loeb edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. Volume three presents - Lucilius of Suessa Aurunca (Sessa), writer of satire; The Twelve Tables of Roman law, traditionally of 451-450.
1938
The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius
1889
Satiren
1997
C. Lucilii Carminum reliquiae
Latin poetry
1905

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gaius Lucilius ranks 873 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernard-Henri Lévy, Zeami Motokiyo, Aubrey Beardsley, Nizar Qabbani, Charles Nodier, and Philip Pullman. After him are Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, Bernhard Schlink, Wilbur Smith, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Shklovsky, and Ghassan Kanafani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 180 BC, Gaius Lucilius ranks 3. Before him are Apollodorus of Athens, and Viriathus. After him are Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus, Publius Mucius Scaevola, Lucius Coelius Antipater, Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Porcina. Among people deceased in 102 BC, Gaius Lucilius ranks 1. 

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gaius Lucilius ranks 1,004 out of 5,161. Before him are Alessandro Marcello (1673), Daniele da Volterra (1509), Gianluca Vialli (1964), Flavio Briatore (1950), Antipope Nicholas V (1260), and Claudia Mori (1944). After him are Alfonso IV of Aragon (1299), Elsa Schiaparelli (1890), Enrico De Nicola (1877), Bernardino Luini (1475), Cosimo Rosselli (1439), and Lodovico Ferrari (1522).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Gaius Lucilius ranks 77. Before him are Pietro Bembo (1470), Italo Svevo (1861), Venantius Fortunatus (530), Gerard of Cremona (1114), Vittoria Colonna (1490), and Stesichorus (-630). After him are Gnaeus Naevius (-275), Lucius Accius (-170), Rustichello da Pisa (1290), Chiara Lubich (1920), Quintus Tullius Cicero (-102), and Vladimir Bartol (1903).

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