Volume III. Remains of Old Latin Lucilius. The Law of the Twelve Tables. Lucilius, the "father" of Roman satire, was born probably in 180 B.C. to a family of senatorial status. Almost everything became a subject of his satiric verse: politics, correspondence, a journey, social life and its problems, literary and dramatic criticism, even spelling. In the surviving 1300 lines of his work a conversational style predominates, a tone that reappears in more refined language in Horace's satire. Series No. 329 / 584 pages / ISBN 0-674-99363-2