Lucius Licinius Lucullus (praetor 104 BC)

Lucius Licinius Lucullus (born c.144 BC) 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). He did not, however, achieve the political success of his father and failed to hold the Consulship, reaching only the position of Praetor 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. He was later 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.

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, 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, 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. 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.

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