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Cassius Longinus, Gaius, active 54 B.C.-42 B.C

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Personal name headingCassius Longinus, Gaius, active 54 B.C.-42 B.C.
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Variant(s)Cassius Longinus, Gaius, fl. 54-42 B.C.
Longinus, Gaius Cassius, active 54 B.C.-42 B.C.
Beginning date-0053
Ending date-0041
Found inDe epistulis et a Cassio et ad Cassium post Caesarem occisum datis quaestiones chronologicae, 1877
Oxford classical dict., 1996 (Cassius Longinus, Gaius, the tyrannicide; quaestor 54 B.C. and proquaestor under Crassus in 53 B.C.; as praetor peregrinus in 44 B.C. he played a leading part in the conspiracy against Caesar; crossed with Brutus to Thrace in summer 42 and encountered Antony and Octavian at Philippi, where he killed himself)