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

During this same time that Dyrrachium was being besieged Lucius Cassius Longinus and Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus had been sent by him into Macedonia and into Thessaly.

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 Foster, Herbert Baldwin

Some were caught when it became day and lost their lives: others got safely away to Syria in the company of Cassius Longinus, the quaestor.

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 Foster, Herbert Baldwin

Caesar had sent orders to Cassius Longinus to pass into Africa from Spain, and break up these combinations; but Longinus had been at war with his own provincials.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

Servilius Caepio and L. Cassius Longinus, who had entered office in the previous year.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)