person
Lucius Licinius Lucullus
Lucullus
also: Лукулл
Roman general and statesman whose extravagant banquets became proverbial in antiquity for lavish feasting -- the source of the English idiom "Lucullan."
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §212 Lucullus
The Roman general whose extravagant banquets became proverbial for lavish feasting (the source of the adjective "Lucullan"); here he squanders a comic fortune of 400,000 francs.