Lae'lius De'cimus
1. Was one of Cn. Pompey's lieutenants in the Sertorian war.
He was slain in an engagement near the town of Lauro, B. C. 76, by Hirtuleius, a legatus of Sertorius. (Sallust.
Schol. Bob. pro Flacc. p. 23.5, Orelli; Frontin.
Strat. 2.5.31; Obseq.
de Prod. 119.) [HIRTULEIUS.] Lucilius, the satirist, as cited by Cicero (
De Or. 2.6), and Cicero himself (
lb.) speaks with some contempt of Laelius's pretensions to literature.