Lucius Cassius Longinus (proconsul 48 BC)

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Lucius Cassius Longinus was the brother of the Gaius Cassius Longinus, a leading instigator in the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Denarius minted by Lucius Longinus in 63 BC, depicting Vesta on the obverse and a Roman citizen voting on the reverse. Both faces allude to the trial of the vestal virgins of 114–113 BC.[1]

Around 52 BC, Lucius was

Roman senate held November 28 to reassign several provinces for the following year.[4] A bill enabling Caesar to add new families to the patriciate[5] was probably sponsored by him rather than his brother as praetor.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 440.
  2. ^ CIL 12.2.774—ILS 39.
  3. Orosius
    6.15.10.
  4. ^ Cicero, Philippics 3.23. For more on these provincial assignments, see G. Calvisius Sabinus: Praetor and governor.
  5. ^ Suetonius, Divus Iulius 41.1; Tacitus, Annales 11.25; Cassius Dio 43.47.3.
  6. T.R.S. Broughton
    , The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1953), vol. 2, pp. 275, 323–324, 435, 544; vol. 3 (1986), pp. 51–52 (on monetalis date).

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