person
Gaius Laelius
Laelius
also: Laeli, Laelius
'Laelius the Wise,' intimate friend of Scipio Aemilianus; with Scipio he relaxed in private with the satirist Lucilius, untroubled by his frankness.
Reading notes
- The Satires §2.1 did Laelius
Laelius the Wise, Scipio's intimate friend; with Scipio he relaxed privately with Lucilius, unoffended by his sharp verse — Horace's precedent for satire among the great.