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Lucius Licinius Lucullus (praetor 104 BC)
Lucius Licinius Lucullus (born c.144 BC)〔Arthur Keaveny, ''Lucullus: A Life,'' 1992, pg3〕 was a politician of the Roman Republic, and a member of the distinguished family of the Licinii Luculli, being the son of Lucius Licinius Lucullus (Consul 151 BC). However, he did not achieve the political success of his father and failed to hold the Consulship, reaching only the position of Praetor which he held in 104 BC. During his Praetorship he first successfully put down a minor slave revolt in Campania before being sent to take command in Sicily during the Second Servile War.〔Diodorus Siculus, ''Library of History,'' Book 36.〕 He was however relieved of his command and prosecuted for embezzlement upon his recall to Rome. Being convicted, he was banished from the city and lived the remainder of his life in exile. He is the father of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, conqueror of Mithridates in the Third Mithridatic War.
==Family==
The Licinii Luculli were a branch of the ancient and aristocratic Plebeian ''gens Licinia.'' The first recorded Lucullus is an L. Licinius Lucullus who held the junior magistracy of Curule Aedile in 202 BC,〔Titus Livius, ''Ab Urbe Condita'', Book 30〕 and his descendants were to play a relatively obscure part in history until Lucullus' father became the first member of the family to be elected to the Consulship in 151 BC, thereby officially ennobling his family. While Consul the elder Lucullus was sent to continue the war against the Celtiberians in Hispania,〔Appian, ''Roman History,'' Book 6〕 however, his predecessor made peace and ended the war before his arrival, thereby depriving him of the opportunity for obtaining booty, through which he had hoped to make his family fortune. He therefore proceeded to make war on the neighbouring Vaccaei tribe, without any pretext or authorisation from the Senate, and with the sole aim of plundering their towns and lands for his own enrichment.〔Appian, ''Roman History,'' Book 6〕 Upon his return to Rome the elder Lucullus had succeeded in making himself and his family wealthy, and therefore influential, and was never prosecuted for his illegal conduct.
His son, also Lucius Licinius Lucullus, was born around 144 BC 〔Arthur Keaveny, ''Lucullus: A Life'', 1992〕 and, sometime around 119 BC,〔Arthur Keaveny, ''Lucullus: A Life'', 1992〕 married Caecilia Metella, the daughter of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus. She was also the sister of Metellus Numidicus (Consul 109 BC) and Metellus Dalmaticus (Consul 119 BC), two of the leading ''optimates'' of their day.〔Plutarch, ''Life of Lucullus''〕 This political marriage brought the Luculli the support and influence of the powerful Caecilii Metelli family which would help their own rise to prominence. From this marriage Lucullus had two sons, Lucius and Marcus, born around 118/117 BC and 116 BC.〔Arthur Keaveny ''Life of Lucullus'', 1992〕 However, despite being politically beneficial the match was an unhappy one, with Metella engaging in numerous scandalous affairs which led to an eventual divorce. Plutarch simply refers to her as 'a bad woman.'〔Plutarch, ''Life of Lucullus''〕
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