Dio 36.41.1-2, accepting Hölzl`s emendation # (Fast. Praet. 29). He refused the province of Sardinia (Dio). (Broughton MRR II)
There were two Lucceii who were contemporaries in this period. Both appear in Cicero's letters, one with the filiation Q. f. (6) and the other with the filiation M. f. (5). The latter was an active business man, interested in provincial affairs, and the former was the historian (see Cic. Fam. 5.12). W. C. McDermott (Hermes 97, 196, 233-246) has assigned the various references to each and concludes that M. f. was the candidate for the consulship of 59 (Cic. Att. 1.17.11; 2.19), while Q. f., after his praetorship in 67, refused appointment to be governor of Sardinia (MRR 2.143) and made no attempt at the consulship. In this scheme there is, as McDermott himself recognized, a clear contradiction between his view and the statement of Asconius (910 that L. Lucceius paratus eruditusque, who must be the historian, was the one qui consulatum postea quoque petivit, an important point, in spite of the list of known errors in Asconius collected by McDermott (op. cit. 242). See Shackleton Bailey, CLF 2.318-319; on Fam. 5.12. Praetor, uncertain date. On the basis of Hölzl's emendation of # to #, this praetorship of uncertain date is generally attributed to Lucceius, the consular candidate. If J. M. David and M. Dondin are right in returning to the name of Lucullus, the evidence for Lucceius' praetorship disappears, whether he was M. f. or Q. f. See above on L. Licinius Lucullus (104). The latest date possible under the Leges Annales for the praetorship of the consular candidate of 60 is 62 (Cic. Att. 1.17.11), a year in which the name of the occupant of one of the eight places remains unknown (MRR 2.173). See J. M. David and M. Dondin, MEFR 92, 1980, 199-213; and also above, on M'. Acilius Glabrio (38). (Broughton MRR III)
According to Appian (BC 3.85), the Senate upon learning of the union of Antony and Lepidus sent these two senators secretly to Brutus in Macedonia to summon him to Italy; but see Cic. Ad Brut. 1.10.1; Dio 46.51.5. (Broughton MRR II)
The filiation is Q. f. See MRR 2.351, on Lucius -, Leg., envoy? 43. Münzer (RE no. 6) suggests the identification. (TJC) (Broughton MRR III)