4. C.AnniusLuscus, T. F. T. N., perhaps son of the preceding. He was commander of the garrison at Leptis, under Q. Metellus Numidicus, in the Jugurthine war, B. C. 108. He was afterwards praetor, and in B. C. 81 was sent by Sulla with proconsular authority against Sertorius. Luscus drove the Sertorians through the passes of the Pyrenees into Spain, and at first by his superior forces, both by land and sea, rendered the situation of Sertorius highly precarious. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 134; Plut. Sert. 7; Sall. B. J. 77.)
[W.B.D]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