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Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 73 BC)

Roman senator and general

Field	Value
name	Gaius Cassius Longinus
office	Consul of the Roman Republic
alongside	Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus
term_start	73 BC
term_end	73 BC
predecessor	Gaius Aurelius Cotta and Lucius Octavius
successor	Gnaeus Octavius and Gaius Scribonius Curio
commands	Proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul
known_for	Defeat by Spartacus during the Third Servile War; supporter of the Lex Manilia
parents	Possibly father of Gaius Cassius Longinus (Caesar's assassin)

Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman consul in 73 BC (together with Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus).

Cassius and his colleague passed the lex Terentia Cassia that ordered the state to buy up grain in Sicily and sell it for a low price in Rome. As proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul in the next year, 72 BC, during the Third Servile War, Cassius tried to stop Spartacus and his followers near Mutina (Modena) as the slave army was trying to break through to unoccupied Gaul, but suffered defeat and barely managed to get away alive. Two years later, Cassius appeared as a witness for the prosecution, which was being led by Cicero, in the trial against the corrupt former governor of Sicily, Verres. In 66 BC, Cassius supported the Manilian law that gave command of the war against Mithridates to Pompey; he was joined in this by Cicero, then praetor, whose famous speech in support of the same bill survives.

This Cassius Longinus may have been the father of the more famous assassin of Caesar, Gaius Cassius Longinus.

Notes

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.

Selected ancient Sources

Livy, Periochae 96.
Plutarch, Crassus 9.7.
Florus, Epitome 2.8.10.
Orosius 5.24.4. (Some of these sources are available in English translation from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm ).)
Appian, Civil Wars 1.117.

References

Cic. "Verr." 2.3.163 and 173
Plut. "Crassus" 9.7
Cic. "Manil." 68.
Cicero, "Pro lege Manilia" or "De imperio Cn. Pompei".
see Kleiner Pauly under Cassius 15.

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