lius
Nepos says that Lucullus did not die of old age nor of disease, but
that his health was destroyed by potions given him by Callisthenes,
one of his freedmen, and that the potions were given him by
Callisthenes with the view of increasing his master's affection for
him, a power which the potions were supposed to have, but they so far
disturbed and destroyed his reason, that during his lifetime his
brother managed his affairs. However, when Lucullus died, the people
grieved just as much as if he had died at the height of his military
distinction and his political career, and they flocked together and
had his body carried to the Forum by the young men of the highest rank
and were proceeding forcibly to have it interred in the Campus Martius
where Sulla was interred; but, as nobody had expected this, and it was
not easy to make the requisite preparations, the brother of Lucullus
prayed and prevailed on the people to allow the funeral ceremony to
take place on the estate at Tusculum, where preparations for it had
been made. Nor did he long survive; but as in age and reputation he
came a little after Lucullus, so he died shortly after him, a most
affectionate brother.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 315: The complete name of Lucullus was L. Licinius Lucullus.
The Licinii were a Plebeian Gens, to which belonged the Luculli,
Crassi, Muraenae, and others. Lucius Licinius Lucullus, the grandfather
of Plutarch's Lucullus, was the son of L. Licinius Lucullus, who was
curule aedile B.C. 202, and the first who gave nobility to his family.
This grandfather of Lucullus was consul B.C. 151 with P. Postumius
Albinus. He conquered the Vaccaei, Cantabri, and other nations of
Spain, hitherto unknown to the Romans. Appian (_Iberica_, c. 52) gives
an instance of his cruelty and perfidy in his Spanish wars. L.
Licinius Lucullus, the father, was praetor B.C. 103. In B.C. 102 he
went to take the command against the slaves who were in rebellion in
Sicily under Athenion. He conducted the war ill, and on his return he
was prosecuted for peculation and convicted. His punishment was exile.
It is not known what the offence was that Servilius was charged with.]

[Footnote 316: This Metellus was the conqueror of Jugurtha; he was
consul B.C. 109. See the Life of Marius, c. 7. His sister Caecilia was
the wife of L. Licinius Lucullus, the father of Plutarch's Lucullus;
she was also the mother of Marcus the brother of Lucius Lucullus.]

[Footnote 317: See L