They are like the lampoons of archilochus and the early Greek Iambic writers, purely personal in their object.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The popularity of Lucilius among the Romans may thus be explained on much the same grounds as that of archilochus among the Greeks.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
One can understand better the story of the daughters of Lycambes hanging themselves under the pain of the iambics of archilochus when one reads the merciless cruelty with which the great English satirist treated the woman he had loved.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy