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LUCIFER (the Latinized See also:form of Gr. 4scwo'4 bpos, " See also:light-See also:bearer ")  , the name given to the " See also:morning See also:star," i.e. the See also:planet See also:Venus when it appears above the E. See also:horizon, before sunrise, and sometimes also to the " evening star," i.e. the same planet in the W. See also:sky after sundown, more usually called See also:Hesperus (q.v.) . The See also:term " See also:day star " (so rendered in the Revised Version) was used poetically by See also:Isaiah for the See also:king of See also:Babylon: " How See also:art See also:thou fallen from See also:heaven, 0 See also:Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations " (Is. xiv . 12, Authorized Version) . The words ascribed to See also:Christ in See also:Luke x . 18: " I beheld Satan as See also:lightning fall from heaven " (cf . Rev. ix . I), were interpreted by the See also:Christian Fathers as referring to the passage in Isaiah; whence, in Christian See also:theology, Lucifer came to be regarded as the name of Satan before his fall . This See also:idea finds its most magnificent and censorious See also:criticism of persons, morals, See also:manners, politics, literature, &c. which the word See also:satire has ever since denoted . In point of See also:form the satire of See also:Lucilius owed nothing to the Greeks . It was a legitimate development of an indigenous dramatic entertainment, popular among the See also:Romans before the first introduction of the forms of See also:Greek art among them; and it seems largely also to have employed the form of the See also:familiar See also:epistle . But the See also:style, substance and spirit of his writings were apparently as See also:original as the form . He seems to have commenced his poetical career by ridiculing and parodying the conventional See also:language of epic and tragic See also:poetry, and to have used the language commonly employed in the social intercourse of educated men .

Even his frequent use of Greek words, phrases and quotations, reprehended by See also:

Horace, was probably taken from the actual practice of men, who found their own speech as yet inadequate to give See also:free expression to the new ideas and impressions which they derived from their first contact with Greek .See also:philosophy, See also:rhetoric and poetry . Further, he not only created a style of his own, but, instead of taking the substance of his writings from Greek poetry, or from a remote past, he treated of the familiar matters of daily See also:life, of the politics, the See also:wars, the See also:administration of See also:justice, the eating and drinking, the See also:money-making and money-spending, the scandals and vices, which made up the public and private life of See also:Rome in the last See also:quarter of the 2nd See also:century B.C . This he did in a singularly See also:frank, See also:independent and courageous spirit, with no private ambition to serve, or party cause to advance, but with an honest See also:desire to expose the iniquity or incompetence of the governing See also:body, the sordid aims of the See also:middle class, and the corruption and venality of the See also:city See also:mob . There was nothing of stoical austerity or of rhetorical indignation in the See also:tone in which he treated the vices and follies of his See also:time . His See also:character and tastes were much more akin to those of Horace than of either See also:Persius or See also:Juvenal . But he was what Horace was not, a thoroughly See also:good hater; and he lived at a time when the utmost freedom of speech and the most unrestrained See also:indulgence of public and private animosity were the characteristics of men who took a prominent See also:part in affairs . Although Lucilius took no active part in the public life of his time, he regarded it in the spirit of a See also:man of the See also:world and of society, as well as a man of letters . His ideal of public virtue and private See also:worth had been formed by intimate association with the greatest and best of the soldiers and statesmen of an older See also:generation . See also:literary expression in See also:Milton's See also:Paradise Lost .

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