person
Lucreti
also: Lucretius's
The Lucretius cited in Cicero's letters is twofold: the poet (T. Lucretius Carus, c. 99-55 BC), whose newly-published De rerum natura Cicero comments on as showing both ingenium and ars (Ad Q. fr. 2.9.3); and a contemporary M. Lucretius, friend of Cassius and informant from Capua at the outbreak of the civil war (Ad Att. 7.24-25). The first appearance in this glossary is the poet.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.24 §1 a letter for Cassius arrived at Capua from Lucretius
News reached Cicero second-hand: Lucretius (probably Q. Lucretius Vespillo, a Pompeian) wrote to the tribune C. Cassius at Capua, and Cicero reports the chain. The figures it carried punctured Philotimus's optimism of the day before.