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 Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:31 am
Lucullan • loo-KULL-un • adjective
: lavish, luxurious
Example Sentence:
The banquet guests were treated to a Lucullan feast in the royal dining room.
Did you know?
"Lucullan" echoes the name of Roman general Lucius Licinius Lucullus. The general had a distinguished military career (including the defeat of Mithradates VI Eupator, king of Pontus, at Cabira in 72 B.C.), but he is best remembered for the splendor of his opulent retirement. Lucullus established a reputation for magnificent banquets, at which he wined and dined the leading poets, artists, and philosophers of his time. His feasts were sufficiently extravagant to establish a lasting place for his name as a synonym of "lavish" in the English lexicon.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:04 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:24 pm
xD Lucius Malfoy.
Gah, I've been reading too much Harry Potter again. -bricked-
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:47 am
they used to eat mountainous helpings of tiny songbirds' eggs,
the meanies.
mad mad
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