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Lucullus

Lucius Licinius . ?110--56 bc, Roman general and consul, famous for his luxurious banquets. He fought Mithradates VI (74--66)
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Lucullus

Roman epicure chiefly remembered for his enormous consumption of food. [Rom. Hist.: Payton, 406]

Lucullus

Timon’s false friend; forgets all too easily his generosity. [Br. Lit.: Timon of Athens]
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Olmstead divides his life into six chronological chapters: "Family History," "Yale through the Cleveland Institute," "The European Period, 1925-1933," "The Decade 1936-1946," "The Trial of Lucullus through Montezuma," and "The Last Two Decades." She pays special consideration to his early life, including a far too detailed account of his family pedigree.
The Senate sent Lucullus to finish the 'war on terror' that Sulla and Murena had failed to complete, but he was hobbled by undisciplined, mutinous legions; Roman soldiers had to rely on looting for pay, while Mithradates always paid his multitudes in gold.
Chard at a Glance Type Comments Varieties White-stemmed Broad white stems, 'Fordhook Giant' often flattened, with 'Lucullus' glossy green leaves.
Chapter 4 is devoted to Lucullus, the controversial collaboration with Paul Dessau in which Brecht sought to consolidate through practice his considerable stature, as a distinguished returning exile, in the German Democratic Republic.
Cicero (106--43 BC) owned at least six villas (Fowler 1937:251), and the villa of the extremely wealthy Lucullus on the Bay of Naples was famous for its beautiful gardens (Littlewood 1987:10-11).
In 1927 Mourning Dove, aided by or interfered with by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, published Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range, a novel she had largely completed by 1916.
In Cicero's Academica, Lucullus, who derides the sceptical system of arguing both sides of a question, asks: '"Why do you conceal your own opinions as though they were something dishonourable?" "In order", he says, [the sceptical Academic] that our listeners may be guided by reason rather than authority."' (31) That answer would appear to be part of Castiglione's methodology.
While I have grown asparagus from seed, that takes fives years before the first harvest, it is better, although more expensive, to plant one-year-old male crowns of either Lucullus or Franklim in April after soaking them in water for an hour.
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