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Gaius Lucilius, acknowledged as the inventor of Roman satire, is of distinguished family, yet had rejected politics and business, preferring the life of poet and sardonic commentator.

Lucilius spent the greater part of his life at Rome, and died, according to Jerome, at Naples in 103 BCE, leaving his thirty widely admired books of satires.

The remains of Lucilius extend to about eleven hundred, mostly unconnected lines, most of them preserved by late grammarians, as illustrative of peculiar verbal usages.

He was, for his time, a voluminous as well as a very discursive writer.

There is reason to believe that each book, like the books of Horace and Juvenal, was composed of different pieces.

The order in which they were known to the grammarians was not that in which they were written.

The earliest in order of composition were probably those numbered from xxvi.

to xxix., which were written in the trochaic and iambic meters that had been employed by Ennius and Pacuvius in their Saturae.

In these he made those criticisms on the older tragic and epic poets of which Horace and other ancient writers speak.

In them too he speaks of the Numantine War as recently finished, and of Scipio as still living.

Book i., on the other hand, in which the philosopher Carneades, who died in 128, is spoken of as dead, must have been written after the death of Scipio.

Nero enjoys driving a one-horse chariot, singing to the lyre, and poetry.

He even composes songs that are performed by other entertainers throughout the empire.

At first, Nero only performed for a private audience, but in 64 CE, Nero began singing in public in Neapolis in order to improve his popularity.

The Austrian armies unite near Calvi soon afterwards, and began the march on Naples.

Murat is forced to flee to Corsica and later Cannes disguised as a sailor on a Danish ship, after a British fleet blockading Naples destroys all the Neapolitan gunboats in the harbor.

Neapolitan Generals Pepe and Carrascosa sues for peace and concludes the Treaty of Casalanza with the Austrians on May 20, bringing the war to an end.

On May 23, the main Austrian army enters Naples and restores King Ferdinand to the Neapolitan throne.

Murat, meanwhile, will attempt to reclaim his kingdom.