(Caius), a Roman knight, and a Latin poet, was born at Suessa in Italy, about 140 B.C. He served under Scipio Africanus in the war with the Numantines; and was in great favour with that celebrated general, and with Laelius. He wrote 30 books of satires, in which he satirized several persons of quality very sharply. Some learned men ascribe the invention of satire to him; but M. Dacier has maintained, with great probability, that Lucilius only gave a better turn to that kind of poetry, and wrote it with more wit and humour than his predecessors Ennius and Pacuvius had done. His fragments have been carefully collected.