A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

3. LUCCEIUS, M. F, a correspondent of Cicero, B. C. 50, and a zealous supporter of the aristocracy (ad Att. 5.21.13), must be distinguished from L. Lucceius, Q. f., the historian [No. 4]. The following passages of Cicero, in which the name of Lucceius occurs without any praenomen, are referred by Orelli ( Onom. Tull. vol. ii. p. 361) to the former of the two (ad Att. 5.20.8, 6.1.23, 7.3.6).