Gaius Servilius Casca
Gaius (?) Servilius Casca was a Roman politician of the 1st century BC. BC, who belonged to the circle of the Caesar murderers .
Casca was friends with Gaius Julius Caesar , but this apparently did not prevent him from joining the circle of conspirators to which his brother Publius Servilius Casca Longus belonged.
The praenomen Gaius is based on the assumption that it is identical with a tribune of the people of the year 44 BC. Named Gaius Casca, who denied his involvement in the conspiracy. Perhaps it was a different carrier of the cognomen Casca and not the brother of Publius Servilius Casca.
On the Ides of March Publius Servilius Casca struck Julius Caesar for the first time, but when his blade slipped, he called his brother to help, who stabbed the dictator in the chest while another conspirator only slightly injured his face at about the same time. According to the doctor who was called Antistius, the second stab in the chest was the only fatal wound, even if the effect took some time. Wolfgang Klemm therefore identified the brother of Publius Servilius Casca as the real murderer of Caesar.
Remarks
- ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero , Philippica 2:27 ; Plutarch , Brutus 17 ; Suetonius , divus Iulius 82 .
- ^ Cassius Dio 44, 52 .
- ↑ See Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The magistrates of the Roman republic . Volume 3. Atlanta 1986, p. 193.
- ^ Suetonius: divus Iulius 82.2
- ↑ See Wolfgang Klemm, Caesar, Biography , Volume 2, Neckenmarkt, Vienna, Munich 2009, p. 209.
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| SURNAME | Servilius Casca, Gaius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Casca, Gaius Servilius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician, one of the conspirators against Gaius Iulius Caesar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC Chr. |