Literary notes about lucullan (AI summary)
The adjective "lucullan" in literature vividly conveys opulence and sumptuous excess, often evoking images of extravagant feasts and lavish banquets. Writers employ it both literally and metaphorically to describe spreads that verge on the decadent, as when a feast is noted for its boundless abundance [1][2], or even when modest fare is elevated to the level of epicurean delight after a hard day's work [3][4]. The term also carries echoes of classical grandeur, referencing historical allusions that imbue dining scenes with a mythic sense of ritual and splendor [5][6].
- Festive banquets, sinful suppers, long-spun-out lunches were as frequent and at times as Lucullan as in the days of the Regency.
— from The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon - “I consider this a Lucullan feast,” remarked Mr. Stone.
— from Boy Scouts at Crater LakeA Story of Crater Lake National Park and the High Cascades by Walter Prichard Eaton - Perhaps it does not sound like a Lucullan feast, but after a day in the field in Grant Land it tastes like one.
— from The North PoleIts Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary - Bobo went into conference with the waiter, and in due course a little Lucullan feast was spread before them.
— from The Substitute Millionaire by Hulbert Footner - [280] Maranta, author of Lucullanæ Quæstiones , Basle, 1564.
— from A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn - The devotion of a Neapolitan lady invited the saint to the Lucullan villa, in the place of Augustulus, who was probably no more.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
