Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 30)

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Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman

Lucius Naevius Surdinus.[2]

Cassius, a pupil of

Syria in 41–49. He was exiled by Nero to Sardinia in 65, but returned to Rome when Vespasian acceded to the purple.[3]

Tacitus includes a speech of Cassius, when he was a senator in the time of Nero, on the debate that arose when there had been mass protests in Rome when 400 innocent slaves were to be executed because they belonged to the household of Lucius Pedanius Secundus who had been murdered by his slave.[4][5] It is open to question as to what extent the speech we have reflected what Cassius actually said, and to what extent it represents Tacitus's views, though it is at least possible that Tacitus made use of the Senate's records; the hard line expressed is in line with what we know about Cassius.[6] In the speech Cassius conceded that the execution would be unjust. He also conceded it violated the rights of private interests but justified it on the grounds of the public good. The private interests that concerned him did not include any right to life for the slaves but the loss to the heirs.[6] Modern commentators side with those who protested at the time in regarding the law as inherently unjust.[6]

He married Junia Lepida, a descendant of Augustus. They had two children: Cassia Longina (born c. AD 35), who married the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, and Cassius Lepidus (born c. AD 55). The latter married an unknown woman by whom he had a daughter, Cassia Lepida (born c. AD 80). She married Gaius Julius Alexander Berenicianus consul in AD 116 and proconsul of Asia in AD 132.

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References

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  2. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 460
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  4. Annales
    XIV.42-45
  5. ^ "Roman law: the art of the fair and good?" (PDF). University of Cambridge Schools Classics Project. 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Fear of slaves, fear of enslavement in the ancient Mediterranean, Anastasia Serghidou, pp. 151-2
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Cassius".
  • Kupisch, Berthold (2001). "Cassius Longinus". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 124.
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Political offices
Preceded byas ordinary consuls
Lucius Naevius Surdinus
 Succeeded byas ordinary consuls
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