"Plurima pars scaenae rerum est fallacia: vates sub terris nigros viderunt carmine manes atque inter cineres Ditis pallentia regna: mentiti vates Stygias undasque canesque."
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Lucilius Junior
(fl. 1st century) was the of Sicily during the reign of Nero, a friend and correspondent of Seneca, and the possible author of the poem Aetna, which presents a naturalistic account of the origin and nature of .
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