Among the friends of Lucilius, besides Scipio and Laelius, were Aelius Stilo, Albinus, and Granius, whom Cicero quotes for his wit.

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'Querquera consequitur capitisque dolores

Infesti mihi.—

Si tam corpu' loco validum ac regione maneret.

Scriptoris quam vera manet sententia cordi.'

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'Verum haec ludus ibi susque omnia deque fuerunt,

Susque et deque fuere, inquam, omnia ludu' iocusque.'

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