A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

842 LUSCINUS. LUSC US.
most celebrated stories in Roman history, and sub- his memoiy, the state interred him within the
sequent poets and historians delighted to embellish pomaerium, although this was forbidden by an
the account in every possible way. So much, enactment of the Twelve Tables. (Val. Max. iv.
however, seems certain-that Pyrrhns received the 3. ~ 7; Gell. i. 14; Appul. Apol. p. 265, ed. Alt.;
ambassadors in the most distinguished manner, Cic. de Leg. ii. 23)'
and attempted particularly to gain the favour of 2. C. FABRICIUs LUSCINUS, probably a grandson
Fabricius; that he offered the ambassador the of the preceding, judging from his praenomen and
most splendid presents, and endeavoured to per- cognomen, was city praetor B. c. 195, and legate
suade him to enter into his service, and accompany B. C. 190, with Sex. Digitius and L. Apustius, to
him to Greece; but that the sturdy Roman was the consul L. Scipio Asiaticus. [DIGITIUS, No.2.]
proof against all his seductions, and rejected all his (Liv; xxxiii. 42, 43, xxxvii. 4.)
offers. The result of the embassy is differently L. LU'SCIUS, a centurion in the times of Sulla,
stated by the ancient writers. [PYRRHUS.] notorious for his crimes and for the wealth which
The war was renewed in the following year, he acquired by them. Luscius was convicted'of
B. C. 279, when Fabricins again served as legate, three murders during the Sullan proscription, B. c.
and shared in the defeat at the battle- of Asculum, 81, and condemned B. C. 64. (Ascon. in Tog. Cand.
in which he is said to have received a wound. p. 92, ed. Orelli; comp. Appian, B. C. i.'101; Plut.
(Oros. iv. 1; Flor. i. 18, where he is erroneously Sull. 33; Dion Cass. xxxvii. 10.) [W. B. D.]
called consul.) Next year, B. C. 278, he was elected LU'SCIUS, LAVI'NIUS, a Latin comic poet,
consul a second time with Q. Aemilius Papus. the contemporary and rival of Terence, who menThe victories which Pyrrhus had. previously gained tions him several times in the prologues to his
were purchased so dearly, that he was unwilling to plays. (Ter. Eucnuch. prol. 7, Heautontim. prol.
risk another battle against the Romans, especially 30, Plotrm. prol. 4.) The name of only one of his
when commanded by Fabricius; the Romans too, plays is known, the plan of which is given by
who were anxious to recover their dominion over Donatus (ad Ter. Euznuch. 1. c.)'Vulcatius Sedigitus
their allies who had revolted, were no less eager assigned' to Luscius the ninth place in the list of
for a conclusion of the war. The generosity with comic poets. (Gell. xv. 24.)
which Fabricius and his colleague sent back to the LU'SCIUS OCREA. LOCREA.]
king the traitor who had offered to poison him, LUSCUS, a cognomen of the Annia, Aufidia,
afforded a fair pretext for opening a negotiation; and Furia gentes, derived, like so many of the
and so opportunely did this event occur, that Roman surnames, from a physical imperfection —
Niebuhr conjectures that it was a preconcerted blear-sight. (Plin. H. AN xi. 37. ~ 55; Fest. s. v.
plan. Cineas was sent to Rome, a truce was con- Luscitio, p. 120, ed. Miiller.) The Fabricia Gens
eluded, and Pyrrhus sailed to Sicily, leaving his had a kindred surname, Luscinus. [W. B. D.]
Italian allies to the vengeance of the Romans. LUSCUS, A'NNIUS. 1. T. ANNIUS LusCus,
[PYRRHUS.] Fabricius was employed during the son of T. Annius, captured by the Boian Gauls in
remainder of the year in reducing Southern Italy B. C. 218 [ANNIUS, No. 3], was sent in B. C. 172,
to subjection, and on his return to Rome he with two other envoys to Perseus, king of Macecelebrated a triumph for his victories over the donia, and in B. C. 169 was triumvir for augmentLucaniaians, Bruttians, Tareintines, and Samnites. ing the colony at Aquileia, in the territory of the
(Fasti Triumph.; Eutrop. ii. 14; Liv. Epit. 13.) Veneti. (Liv. xlii. 25, xliii. 17.)
He exerted himself to obtain the election of P. 2. T. ANNIus T. F. Luscus, son, probably, of
Cornelius Rufinus to the consulship for the follow- the preceding, was consul in B. C. 153 (see Fasti).
ing year, on account of his military abilities, Cicero mentions him as a respectable orator (Brlet.
although he was an avaricious man. (Cic. de Oat. 20). In s. c. 133, Luscus appears among the opii. 66.) ponents of Tib. Gracchus whom he foiled in the
Fabricius is stated in the Fasti to have been comitia by an insidious question. (Plut. Tib. Ceraccl.
consul suffectus in B. C. 273, but this appears to be 14.) A few words from one of his speeches are
a mistake, arising from a confusion of his name extant in Festus (s. v. Satura).
with that of C. Fabius Licinus. (Pigh. Annal. 3. T. ANNIUS T. F. T. N. Luscus, with the agad ann.) He was censor, B. C. 275, with Q. nomen RUFUS, was consul'in B.C. 128. He was
Aemilius Papus, his former colleague in the con- * probably a son of the preceding. (Fasti.)
sulship, and distinguished himself by the severity 4. C. ANNIUS T. F. T. N. Luscus, perhaps son
with which he attempted to repress the growing of the preceding. He was commander of the gartaste for luxury. His censorship is particularly rison at Leptis, under Q. Metellus Numidicus, in
celebrated, from his expelling from the senate the the Jugurthine war, B. C. 108. He was afterwards
P. Cornelius Rufinus mentioned above, on account praetor, and in B.C. 81 was sent by Sulla with
of his possessing ten pounds' weight of silver plate. proconsular authority against Sertorius. Luscus
(Liv. Epit. 14; Zonar. viii. 6; Gell. xvii. 21.) drove the Sertorians through the passes of the
The love of luxury and the degeneracy of morals, Pyrenees into Spain, and at first by his superior
which had already commenced, brought out still forces, both by land and sea, rendered the situation
more prominently the simplicity of life and the in- of Sertorius highly precarious. (Eckhel, vol. v. p.
tegrity of character which distinguished Fabricius 134; Plut. Sert. 7; Sall. B. J. 77.) [W.B.D.]
as well as his contemporary Curius Dentatus; and LUSCUS, AUFI'DIUS, the chief magistrate
ancient writers love to tell of the frugal way in at Fundi, ridiculed by Horace, on account of the
which they lived on their hereditary farms, and ridiculous and pompous airs he gave himself when
how they refused the rich presents which the Maecenas and his friends passed through Fundi, in
Samnite ambassadors offered them. Fabricius died their celebrated journey to Brundisiumn. Horace
as poor as he had lived; he left no dowry for his calls him praetor; but. as Fundi was a praefectura,
daughters, which the senate, however, furnished; and not a municipium, Luscus must have been
and in order to pay the greatest possible respect to sent from Rome simply as praefectus, and assumed