the chief magistrate at Fundi, ridiculed by Horace, on account of the ridiculous and pompous airs he gave himself when Maccenas and his friends passed through Fundi, in their celebrated journey to Brundisium. Horace calls him praetor; but as Fundi was a praefectura, and not a municipium, Luscus must have been sent from Rome simply as praefectus, and assumed
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the title of praetor to enhance his dignity. (Hor. Sat. 1.5. 34-36.)