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.

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