Note 3 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
The dates of his birth and death, according to Jerome, were 148 b.c. and 102 b.c. We are told, on the same authority, that he died at Naples and received the honour of a public funeral. The chief difficulty in accepting these dates arises from the statement of Velleius that Lucilius served as an 'eques' under Scipio in the Numantine War3, and from the fact, attested by Horace and other authorities, of his great intimacy with both Scipio and Laelius4. Horace also mentions that he celebrated in his writings the justice and valour of Scipio,—