The Campanian Case of Gaius Lucilius: Downtrodden Satire from Suessa Aurunca

Abstract

for advice and encouragement. 2. Jerome Chron. 143e Helm gives 148 BCE. Controversy surrounds the date, regularly emended to either 168 BCE, if we believe that Jerome miscopied the number giving the year of Lucilius' life in which he died, changing LX to XL, or 180 BCE, on the assumption that Jerome was misled by the identical nomina and cognomina of the respective consuls in that year and in 148 BCE. 3. For a suggestive survey of the town's mostly post-Lucilian archaeological record, see De Caro (2012) 175-85. 4. I have used the following texts and (adapted) translations: