In the summer of 68 BC Lucullus resumed the war against Tigranes, crossing the Anti-Taurus Range in a long march through very difficult mountain country directed at the old Armenian capital Artaxata.

In the summer of 68 BC Lucullus marched against Tigranes and crossed the Anti-Taurus range heading for the old Armenian capital Artaxata.

* Scipio Aemilianus is sent by the Roman general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, to Numidia to obtain some elephants from the Numidian king Masinissa, the friend of his grandfather Scipio Africanus.

* Lucullus is Timon's " friend ".

Lucullus was elected Quaestor in winter 89-88 at the same elections in which Sulla was returned as Consul with his friend Quintus Pompeius Rufus, whose son was married to Sulla's eldest daughter, Cornelia.

Lucius Licinius Lucullus, despite being his personal friend, resented Atticus ' receiving an inheritance he felt he was entitled to for his association with the campaign against Mithridates and as Governor of Syria.

* Gnaeus Licinius Lucullus, a friend of Cicero, who attended the funeral of Lucullus ' mother.

Varro was a close friend and relative of Lucullus and of the chief advocate of his defense Quintus Hortensius, Rome's leading orator at the time.

He was a friend of Lucullus ( the antagonist of Mithridates ) and the teacher of Cicero during his studies at Athens ( 79 BC ); but he had a school at Alexandria also, as well as in Syria, where he seems to have died.

After his father's death in 78 BC, he and his twin sister Fausta were brought up by his guardian, his father's friend Lucullus.

Antiochos and Herakleitos dissected it at length in Lucullus ' presence, and in the ensuing weeks while the Roman party continued to await the arrival of the king from the south, Antiochos composed a vigorous polemic against Philo entitled Sosos, which marked his definitive break with Philo's so-called " Sceptical Academy ", and the beginning of the separate, more conservative, school eventually called the Old Academy.

Cyzicus was held for the Romans against King Mithridates VI of Pontus who besieged it with 300, 000 men in 74 BC, but it withstood him stoutly, and the siege was raised by Lucullus: the loyalty of the city was rewarded by an extension of territory and other privileges.

Returning to Rome in 66 BC, Clodius was in serious need of protection from his brother-in-law because of the treason he had committed in Lucullus ' army, and his incestuous relations with Lucullus ' wife, which Lucullus had discovered upon his return the same year and prompted him to divorce her.

But he had risked interfering with Lucullus ' army in the east directly in the interests of Pompey, who had not lifted a finger to help him, despite being locked in serious political dispute with the Luculli brothers.

Most of his commanders ( with the exception of his kinsman through marriage Lucullus ) refused to accompany him.

Sulla ’ s chief of staff was Lucullus, who went ahead of him to scout the way and negotiate with Bruttius Sura, the existing Roman commander in Greece.

In autumn of the same year Sulla sent Lucullus ahead of him to Greece to take over the command of the Mithridatic War in his name.

Sulla dedicated his memoirs to Lucullus, and upon his death made him guardian of his son Faustus, preferring Lucullus over Pompey.

But after several small battles, Lucullus finally defeated him at the Battle of Cabira.

Once, Cicero and Pompey succeeded in inviting themselves to dinner with Lucullus, but, curious to see what sort of meal Lucullus ate when alone, forbade him to communicate with his slaves regarding any preparation of the meal for his guests.

Lucullus reprimanded him saying, " What, did not you know, then, that today Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

For introducing the Persian garden, Pompey mockingly nicknamed Lucullus ' the Roman Xerxes ', and Tubero called him ' Xerxes in a toga '.

She bore him several children including her son, suffect consul of 31, Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus III.

An inscription from Chichester, recorded by Samuel Woodford in his Inscriptionum Romano-Britannicarum Conllectio ( 1658 ) but since lost, refers to Sallustius Lucullus, giving his praenomen as Gaius and describing him as a propraetorian legate of the emperor Domitian.

Although other archaeologists have dated the construction of the palace to c. 73, Russell's reinterpretation of the ground plan and finds leads him to date the palace after 92, which would be consistent with Lucullus rather than Cogidubnus as its occupant.

He then assumed the command of the army and obtained several successes against Mithridates VI, whom he shut up in Pitane on the coast of Aeolis, and would undoubtedly have captured him had Lucullus co-operated with the fleet.

Most likely Appius went out with Lucullus from the beginning in early 73 BC, although he is not directly attested in the east until the autumn of 71 following the occupation of eastern Kappadokia Pontike, when Lucullus sent him to the Armenian king Tigranes to demand the surrender of Mithridates VI.

Archias wrote poems of the general's military exploits, and in 93 BC, Lucullus helped him gain citizenship of the municipium of Heraclea.

The name was soon changed to Apollonia, on account of a temple dedicated to Apollo in the town, containing a famous colossal statue of the god Apollo by Calamis, 30 cubits high, transported later to Rome by Lucullus and placed in the Capitol.

In the 21st century, fragments remain of the first 36 books, including considerable portions of both the 35th ( on the war of Lucullus against Mithridates VI of Pontus ) and 36th ( on the war with the pirates and the expedition of Pompey against the king of Pontus ) books.

Historians regret the loss of the work, as it must have thrown much light on a very eventful period, embracing the war against Sertorius ( died 72 BC ), the campaigns of Lucullus against Mithradates VI of Pontus ( 75-66 BC ), and the victories of Pompey in the East ( 66-62 BC ).

Lucullus had determined to use the opportunity to destroy Clodius ' political career, and eventually he was tried on the capital charge of incestus ( sexual immorality ).

Others, such as Lucullus, took on the role of librarian by lending out scrolls in their collection to those who lacked the means to have their own collections.

An inscription ( CIL 6. 29789 = ILS 5990 ) also records Messalla as the owner of the famed Gardens of Lucullus ( Horti Luculliani ) located on the Pincian Hill where the Villa Borghese gardens are today.

The Gardens of Lucullus ( Horti Lucullani ) on the Pincian Hill on the edge of Rome introduced the Persian garden to Europe, about 60 BC.

He built the horti Lucullani, the famous Gardens of Lucullus, on the Pincian Hill in Rome, and in general became a cultural revolutionary in the deployment of imperial wealth.

Lucullus was probably the Quaestor mentioned as the sole officer in Sulla's army who could stomach accompanying the Consul when he marched on Rome.

Tigranes retired to the northern regions of his kingdom to gather another army and defend his hereditary capital of Artaxata, while Lucullus moved off south-eastwards to the kingdom of the Kurds ( Korduene ) on the frontiers of the Armenian and Parthian empires.

In this period Lucullus was forced to reside outside the pomerium, which curtailed his involvement in day to day politics centred on the Forum.

The Gardens of Lucullus ( Horti Lucullani ) were the setting for an ancient patrician villa on the Pincian Hill on the edge of Rome ; they were laid out by Lucius Licinius Lucullus about 60 BCE.

", and Pliny writes of Lucullus cutting a channel through a mountain on his Naples estate to allow seawater to circulate in his fishpond, which recalled the channel that had been cut through the isthmus at Mount Athos by the Persian king.

It is possible, based on epigraphic evidence, that Sallustius Lucullus, Roman governor of Britain in the late 1st century, was his grandson.

Initially, Wrangel lived on his yacht Lucullus at Constantinople, which was rammed and sunk by the Italian steamer Adria, which had sailed from Soviet-held Batum.

When talking to Yellow Wolf, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter came to believe that the person fasts, and stays awake and concentrates on their quest until their mind becomes " comatose.

* Lucius Licinius ( L. f .) Lucullus, consul in 151 BC, he was assigned to Hispania, where he instigated a war against the Vaccaei, and as proconsul the following year, carried on war against the Lusitani with acts of great perfidy and cruelty.

The lucus thus would have been located on the Pincian Hill, which was later cultivated as gardens and leisure parks by Lucullus, Pompeius, Sallust and others.