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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:L.lucretius_8</requestUrn>
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            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:L.lucretius_8</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="L"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="lucretius-bio-8" n="lucretius_8"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Lucre'tius</surname></persName></head><p>8. <persName xml:lang="la"><forename full="yes">Q.</forename><surname full="yes">Lucretius</surname></persName>, accused Livius Drusus of praevaricatio, <date when-custom="-54">B. C. 54</date>. He is mentioned by Cicero as an intimate friend of C. Cassius
      Longinus, and a supporter of the aristocratical party. On the breaking out of the civil war he
      was stationed at Sulmo with five cohorts, but his colleague C. Attius, according to Cicero, or
      his town troops according tc Caesar, opened the gates of the town to M. Antony, and Lucretius
      was obliged to save himself by flight. (<bibl n="Cic. Att. 4.16.5">Cic. Att. 4.16.5</bibl>,
       <bibl n="Cic. Att. 4.7.24">7.24</bibl>, <bibl n="Cic. Att. 4.7.25">25</bibl> ; <bibl n="Caes. Civ. 1.18">Caes. Civ. 1.18</bibl>.)</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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