Lucius Cassius Longinus (suffect consul)

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Lucius Cassius Longinus was an early Imperial Roman senator and a suffect consul in AD 11 .

Longinus belonged to the gens Cassia , which was one of the most respected families of the nobility during the republic . He descended in a direct line from the Caesar murderer Gaius Cassius Longinus . His two sons, Gaius and Lucius , were brought up in strict Roman manners. Both became consuls in 30 .

Cassius was a member of the noble priesthood of the Arval Brothers . In 11 AD he was together with Titus Statilius Taurus suffect consul. He was married to Aelia, the daughter of the legal scholar Quintus Aelius Tubero .

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  1. Fasti Arval., CIL. I, 2 pagina29.
  2. Fasti Capitolini, CIL. I, 2, p. 29 and CIL XII, 4333.
  3. Pomponius, Digest I2,251