Gaius Cassius Longinus (lawyer)
Gaius Cassius Longinus († around 69 ) was a Roman lawyer and politician in the 1st century AD.
Cassius was descended from the Caesar murderer of the same name, Gaius Cassius Longinus , and was related by marriage to Iunia Lepida , a great-granddaughter of Augustus , to the Julio-Claudian imperial family, as was his brother Lucius Cassius Longinus .
In 30 he was suffect consul , 40/41 proconsul of the province of Asia and from 45 to 49 governor of the province of Syria , where he restored the discipline of the troops stationed there. He was considered morally strict and spoke out in favor of executing all slaves of the murdered city prefect Lucius Pedanius Secundus .
He was exiled to Sardinia under Nero in 65 for alleged involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy , but was rehabilitated under Vespasian and was able to return to Rome. Shortly afterwards he died. His wife was also charged in 65. She was accused of adultery with her nephew. Nothing is known about their further fate.
As a legal scholar he wrote Tres libri iuris civilis , with which he became one of the ancestors of the legal school of the Cassians (or Sabinians).
Remarks
literature
- Joseph Georg Wolf : The Senatusconsultum Silanianum and the Senate speech of C. Cassius Longinus from the year 61 AD (= meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. 1988, 2). Winter, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-533-04023-2 .
- Paul Jörs : Cassius 60 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Sp. 1736-1738.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gaius Cassius Longinus in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cassius Longinus, Gaius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Longinus, Gaius Casius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 69 |