Lucius Cassius Longinus (proconsul 48 BC)

Lucius Cassius Longinus was the brother of the Gaius Cassius Longinus, a leading instigator in the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Denarius minted by Lucius Longinus in 63 BC, depicting Vesta on the obverse and a Roman citizen voting on the reverse. Both faces allude to the trial of the vestal virgins of 114–113 BC.[1]
For other people with the same name, see Lucius Cassius Longinus.

Around 52 BC, Lucius was triumvir monetalis in 63 BC. He minted denarii referring to the famous trial of the vestal virgins of 114–113 BC, which was prosecuted by his ancestor Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla.[1] He was a proconsul[2] by Caesar's appointment in 48 BC, during the civil war. He occupied Thessaly, but was forced by Metellus Scipio to retreat, after which he joined Calvisius Sabinus in Aetolia.[3] He was a tribune of the plebs in 44 BC, a year in which the people's tribunes were exceptionally numerous and his brother held the praetorship. Along with his fellow tribunes Tiberius Canutius and Decimus Carfulenus, L. Cassius was excluded from the important meeting of the Roman senate held November 28 to reassign several provinces for the following year.[4] A bill enabling Caesar to add new families to the patriciate[5] was probably sponsored by him rather than his brother as praetor.[6]

References
  1. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 440.
  2. CIL 12.2.774—ILS 39.
  3. Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile 3.5.4, 7, 8, 15; Cassius Dio 41.44, 46, 48; Orosius 6.15.10.
  4. Cicero, Philippics 3.23. For more on these provincial assignments, see G. Calvisius Sabinus: Praetor and governor.
  5. Suetonius, Divus Iulius 41.1; Tacitus, Annales 11.25; Cassius Dio 43.47.3.
  6. Giovanni Niccolini, I fasti dei tribuni della plebe (Milan 1934), p. 347, on the question of which brother was responsible for the legislation. Offices, dates, and citations of ancient sources from T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1953), vol. 2, pp. 275, 323–324, 435, 544; vol. 3 (1986), pp. 51–52 (on monetalis date).

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