Gaius Cassius Longinus 2
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Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman consul in 73 BC (with Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus). As proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul in the next year, 72 BC, during the Third Servile War, he was defeated by Spartacus and his followers near Mutina (now Modena) as they were trying to break through to unoccupied Gaul.
He may have been the father of the more famous Caesar assassin, Gaius Cassius Longinus.[1]
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[edit] Selected ancient Sources
- Livy, Periochae 96.
- Plutarch, Crassus 9.7.
- Florus, Epitome 2.8.10.
- Orosius 5.24.4.[2]
[edit] See also
- Appian, Civil Wars 1.117.
[edit] Notes
- ^ see Kleiner Pauly under Cassius 15.
- ^ Some of these sources are available in English translation from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm).
[edit] Bibliography
- Broughton, T. Robert S.Magistrates of the Roman Republic, vol. 2. Cleveland: Case Western University Press, 1968, p. 109 and 117.
- Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, p. 96. ISBN 0253312590
