Cassius Longinus

American  

[lon-jahy-nuhs] / lɒnˈdʒaɪ nəs /

noun

1. Gaius died 42 b.c., Roman general: leader of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar.

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Cassius Longinus British  

/ ˈkæsɪəs lɒnˈdʒaɪnəs /

noun

1. Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs). died 42 _bc , Roman general: led the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (44); defeated at Philippi by Antony (42)

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Cassius Longinus

Experts said they believe the coin was likely discovered more than a decade ago in an area of current-day Greece where Brutus and his civil war ally, Gaius Cassius Longinus, were encamped with their army.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

The consuls being absent, the Senate was convened by the tribunes, Mark Antony and Cassius Longinus, both officers in Caesar's army.

From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude

The Porta Ercole is simpler, and probably older; it bears the names of two duumvirs, Lucius Cassius Longinus and Lucius Calphurnius Piso, and some rough carving.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

It was with great difficulty that the Tribunes, M. Antonius, afterward the well-known Triumvir, and Q. Cassius Longinus, forced the Senate to allow the letter to be read.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith

After this act he assigned that nation to Cassius Longinus because the latter was accustomed to the inhabitants from his quaestorship which he had served under Pompey.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Herbert Baldwin Foster

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