Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 96 BC)

Summary

Gaius Cassius Longinus was consul in 96 BC with Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.[1] He stood for the plebeian tribunate in 104 BC but was unsuccessful; after his consulship, he may have been the Gaius Cassius which was to assume supreme command against the Marians in the Bellum Octavianum.[2]

He is mentioned by Cicero as one of those persons elected consul without previously holding the aedileship.

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Citations
Sources
  • Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1952). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association.
  • Münzer, Friedrich (1899). "Cassius 57" . Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (in German). Vol. III, 2. Stuttgart: Butcher. cols. 1726–27 – via Wikisource.

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Longinus, Cassius (7)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 799.

Political offices
Preceded by
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus and Publius Licinius Crassus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
96 BC
Succeeded by