Lucius Cassius Longinus (consul 107 BC)
Lucius Cassius Longinus (c. 151 – 107 BC) was consul of the Roman Republic in 107 BC. His colleague was Gaius Marius, then serving the first of his seven consulships.[1]
He was probably the eldest son of Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla, consul in 127 BC, who had presided over the trial of several Vestal Virgins who had been charged with unchastity.
As
Teutones).[3] He was killed in an ambush at the Battle of Burdigala, in modern-day Bordeaux, along with 10,000 of his legionaries.[4] After his death, the remains of his army under Gaius Popillius Laenas passed under the yoke, gave up half of their belongings, and returned to Rome.[5]
The massacre of Longinus and his army was one of the reasons given by
De Bello Gallico for why he denied the Helvetii the freedom to migrate through Roman territory in 58 BC.[6]
References
- ISBN 978-1-5417-2403-7.
- ^ Sallust, Jug., 32
- ^ Lynda Telford, Sulla A Dictator Reconsidered, p.42
- ^ Lynda Telford, Sulla A Dictator Reconsidered, p.43
- ^ Duncan 2017, p. 120.
- ^ Caesar, De bello gallico, 7
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Longinus, Cassius (5)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 799.
- Sumner, G.V. (1973). The Orators in Cicero's Brutus: Prosopography and Chronology. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5281-9.