Other sources report that he kept for himself only the extensive royal library, in which act he set an example for later Roman generals, such as Lucullus.

On arrival, Lucullus set out from his province to relieve the besieged Cotta in Bithynia.

Lucullus ' rural villas in the hills at Tusculum, near modern Frascati, and at Naples were also set in lavish garden settings.

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.

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.

As Plutarch pointed out, " Lucullus the first Roman who carried an army over Taurus, passed the Tigris, took and burnt the royal palaces of Asia in the sight of the kings, Tigranocerta, Cabira, Sinope, and Nisibis, seizing and overwhelming the northern parts as far as the Phasis, the east as far as Media, and making the South and Red Sea his own through the kings of the Arabians.

37 mentions " the chambers and galleries, with their sea-views, built at Naples by Lucullus, out of the spoils of the barbarians.

* Lucius Licinius L. f. ( L. n .) Lucullus, praetor in 104 BC, appointed by the senate to the command in Sicily during the Second Servile War ; victorious in the field, he was unable to capture the stronghold of the slaves, and surrendered his command, but not before destroying his camp and supplies out of spite.

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.

Some time later, when the Roman armies led by Pompey and Varro Lucullus were recalled to Italy in support of Crassus, Spartacus decided to fight rather than find himself and his followers trapped between three armies, two of them returning from overseas action.

* Lucius Lucullus held a triumph, he retired from war and politics to live a life of refined luxury.

A cultivated cherry is recorded as having been brought to Rome by Lucius Licinius Lucullus from northeastern Anatolia, modern day Turkey, also known as the Pontus region, in 72 BC.

He orders Lucius Licinius Lucullus to raise a fleet from Rome's allies around the eastern Mediterranean.

* 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.

Felicitas was unknown before the mid-2nd century BC, when a temple was dedicated to her in the Velabrum in the Campus Martius by Lucius Licinius Lucullus, using booty from his 151 – 150 BC campaign in Spain.

The Roman commander, Lucullus, demanded the expulsion of Mithridates from Armenia – to comply with such a demand would be, in effect, to accept the status of vassal to Rome and this Tigranes refused.

Once again, both Mithridates and Tigranes evaded capture by the victorious Romans. However, the Armenian historians claim, that Romans lost the battle of Artaxata and Lucullus ' following withdrawal from the Kingdom of Armenia in reality was an escape due to above-mentioned defeat.

With Lucullus ' troops now refusing to obey his commands, but agreeing to defend positions from attack, the senate sent Gnaeus Pompey to recall Lucullus to Rome and take over his command.

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.

Lucullus provided numerous slaves from his household to testify to Clodius ' incest with his sister when she had been his wife, the same Claudia who had attempted to supplant Terentia as Cicero's wife.

At the time Archelaus had command of the sea, so Sulla sent Lucullus to raise a fleet from the remaining Roman allies in the eastern Mediterranean.

Lucullus returned to Rome from the east with so much captured booty that the whole could not be fully accounted, and poured enormous sums into private building, husbandry and even aquaculture projects which shocked and amazed his contemporaries by their magnitude.

Lucullus was a member of the prominent gens Licinia, and of the family, or stirps of the Luculli, which may have been descended from the ancient nobility of Tusculum.

He was grandson of Lucius Licinius Lucullus ( Consul c. 151 ), and son of Lucius Lucullus ( Praetor c. 104 ), who was convicted for embezzlement in 102 / 1 from his Sicilian command of 103-2.

He sent Lucullus to collect such a fleet as may be possible from Rome's allies along the eastern Mediterranean seaboard, first to the important but currently disturbed states of Cyrene and Ptolemaic Egypt.

Plutarch's biography entirely ignores this period, 78 BC to 75 BC, jumping from Sulla's death to Lucullus ' consulate.

Two other notable transactions took place in 76 or 75 BC following Lucullus ' return from Africa, his marriage to Claudia the youngest daughter of Appius Claudius Pulcher, and his purchase of the Marian hill top villa at Cape Misenum from Sulla's wretchedly avaricious eldest daughter Cornelia.

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.

Lucullus led them back south to the warmer climes of northern Mesopotamia and had no trouble from his troops there despite setting them the difficult task of capturing the great Armenian fortress of Nisibis, which was quickly stormed and made the Roman base for the winter of 68-7 B. C.

That winter Lucullus left his army at Nisibis and taking a small, but apparently highly mobile, escort journeyed to Syria in an attempt to permanently exclude Tigranes from all his southern possessions.

The more daring and ruthless veterans had probably been further encouraged by Lucullus ' relatively mild acceptance of their first open mutiny in the Tablelands the previous autumn: especially the so-called Fimbrian legions who had murdered their commander Lucius Valerius Flaccus at Gaius Flavius Fimbria's instigation eighteen years earlier in the winter of 86-5 B. C.

In addition Mithridates had been sent back to Pontus by Tigranes during the same winter, and made some headway against the garrison force Lucullus had left there under his legates Sornatius Barba and Fabius Hadrianus.

During the winter of 68-67 BC at Nisibis, his authority over his army was more seriously undermined by the efforts of his young brother-in-law Publius Clodius Pulcher, apparently acting in the interests and pay of Pompey the Great, who was eager to succeed Lucullus in the eastern command.

* 68 BC – Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.

Following the Roman general Lucullus ' defeat of both Mithridates and Tigranes in 69 BC, a rump Seleucid kingdom was restored under Antiochus XIII.

* 92 BC: Lucullus invades Armenia, setting off the centuries long Roman-Persian Wars.

In response to the first threat, Rome's best general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus ( consul in 74 BC ), was sent to defeat Mithridates, followed shortly by his brother Varro Lucullus ( consul in 73 BC ).

* Lucullus, consul ( b. c. 118 BC )

* Lucullus, Roman consul ( d. 56 BC )

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.

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 ).

Selene was eventually captured and killed by Tigranes, but after the latter's defeat by Pompey, the residents of Antioch hailed Antiochus XIII as king, and Lucius Lucullus approved his appointment as client ruler of Syria ( 69 BC ).

Antiochus is first mentioned in the ancient sources in 69 BC, when the Roman Lucullus campaign against Armenian King Tigranes the Great.

Lucullus conquered Sinope for Rome in 70 BC, and Julius Caesar established a Roman colony there, Colonia Julia Felix, in 47 BC.

In 69-68 BC Lucullus, having overcome Armenian ruler Tigranes II, approached the borders of Caucasian Albania and was succeeded by Pompey.

During their early encounters, cataphracts remained ineffective against the Roman foot soldier, being decisively defeated in the Battle of Magnesia ( 189 BC ) and in the battle of Lucullus with Tigran the Great near Tigranocerta in 69 BC.