Chapter Lucille to Lucumo of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Drayton-calls the two legates “Fugatius and St. Damian.”

Those goodly Romans…who…
Wan good king Lucius first to embrace the Christian faith;
Fugatius and his friend St. Damian…
…have their remembrance here.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xxiv. (1622).

(After baptism, St. Lucius abdicated, and became a missionary in Switzerland, where he died a martyr’s death.)

Lucius (Caius), general of the Roman forces in Britain in the reign of king Cymbeline .—Shakespeare: Cymbeline (1605).

(There is a Lucius in Timon of Athens, and in Julius Cæsar also.)

Lucius Tiberius, general of the Roman army, who wrote to king Arthur, commanding him to appear at Rome to make satisfaction for the conquests he had made, and to receive such punishment as the senate might think proper to award. This letter induced Arthur to declare war with Rome. So, committing the care of government to his nephew Modred, he marched to Lyonaise (in Gaul), where he won a complete victory, and left Lucius dead on the field. He then started for Rome; but being told that Modred had usurped the crown, he hastened back to Britain, and fought the great battle of the West, where he received his death-wound from the hand of Modred.—Geoffrey: British History, ix. 15–20; x. (1142).

Great Arthur did advance
To meet, with his allies, that puissant force in France
By Lucius thither led.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, iv. (1612).

Luck of Roaring Camp (The), the best of the prose sketches of Bret Harte of America. It describes the ameliorating influence of a little child on a set of ruffians (1870).

(It has been dramatized. See Silas Marner, a tale somewhat similar, by George Eliot (Mrs. J. W. Cross), 1816.)

Lucretia, daughter of Spurius Lucretius prefect of Rome, and wife of Tarquinius Collatinus. She was dishonoured by Sextus, the son of Tarquinius Superbus. Having avowed her dishonour in the presence of her father, her husband, and their friends Junius Brutus and Valerius, she stabbed herself.

N.B.—This subject has been dramatized in French by Ant. Vincent Arnault, in a tragedy called Lucrèce (1792); and by François Ponsard in 1843. In English, by Thomas Heywood, in tragedy entitled The Rape of Lucrece (1630); by Nathaniel Lee, entitled Lucius Junius Brutus (seventeenth century); and by John H. Payne, entitled Brutus or The Fall of Tarquin (1820). Shakespeare selected the same subject for his poem entitled The Rape of Lucrece (1594).

Tennyson wrote a dramatic monologue called Lucretius.

Lucrezia di Borgia, daughter of pope A lexander VI. She was thrice married, her last husband b eing Alfonso duke of Ferrara. Before this marriage, she had a natural son named Gennaro, who was brought up by a Neapolitan fisherman. When grown to manhood, Gennaro had a commission given him in the army, and in the battle of Rimini he saved the life of Orsini. In Venice he declaimed freely against the vices of Lucrezia di Borgia, and on one occasion he mutilated the escutcheon of the duke by knocking off the B, thus converting Borgia into Orgia. Lucrezia insisted that the perpetrator of this insult should suffer death by poison; but when she discovered that the offender was her own son, she gave him an antidote, and released him from jail. Scarcely, however, was he liberated, than he was poisoned at a banquet given by the princess Negroni. Lucrezia now told Gennaro that he was her own son, and died as her son expired.—Donizetti: Lucrezia di Borgia (ah opera, 1834).

(Victor Hugo has a drama entitled Lucrèce Borgia.)