Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 96 BC)

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.

References
Citations
  1. Münzer 1899; Broughton 1952.
  2. Münzer 1899.
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 domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Longinus, Cassius (7)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 799.

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