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Cassius Longinus

American  
[lon-jahy-nuhs] / lɒnˈdʒaɪ nəs /

noun

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


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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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

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

The people who had come to listen stayed to vote, and the suffrage of the centuries gave the "new man" as a colleague to Lucius Cassius Longinus.

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

As jurists we hear of few eminent names: Proculus and Cassius Longinus are the most prominent.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

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 Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

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