Quintus Cassius Longinus (Tribune of the People)

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Quintus Cassius Longinus († 47 BC ) was a member of the ancient Roman plebeian family of the Cassier and 49 BC. Chr. Tribune .

Life

Quintus Cassius Longinus was the son of a Gaius Cassius according to an inscription indicating his affiliation . From this it can be concluded with some probability that he was a brother of the Caesar murderer Gaius Cassius Longinus .

From around 57 BC Until his death, Quintus Cassius Longinus was Augur . 55 BC BC he exercised the office of mint master . The next station on his course honorum is the bursary , which he took up around 52 BC. Under Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in Spain . Through his exploitative and cruel behavior in this office, he incurred a lot of hatred and enriched himself enormously. He was even the victim of an attempted attack.

As a tribune in 49 BC Shortly before the outbreak of the Roman Civil War , Cassius was on the side of Gaius Julius Caesar . He tried in vain to work in the Senate in favor of Caesar and against the party of the Pompeians together with Marcus Antonius , who at that time also held the tribunate of the people. In the Senate meeting on January 7, 49 BC BC (pre-Julian) the two tribunes of the people were prevented from their right of intercession and fled the following night from Rome to Ariminum to their patron, with whom they arrived shortly after he had crossed the Rubicon . Caesar presented Antony and Cassius effectively and pitifully to his soldiers, pointed to the breach of the inviolability of the tribunes and, among other things, justified his opening of civil war. When Caesar, after his victorious invasion of Italy, first turned to Spain to fight the armies of the Pompeians there, he was accompanied by Cassius. After Caesar's departure, this remained with a proprietary empire from 49 to 47 BC. On the Iberian Peninsula. In doing so, he appeared again extremely rapacious and brutal, a circumstance that benefited the Pompeians. In Cordoba a conspiracy broke out against him, which he was able to suppress, and the rebellion of two legions. Finally, because of another revolt, he even had to call for help from the Mauritanian King Bogud and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus . When he was 47 BC BC wanted to leave Spain with his treasures, he capsized due to a storm at the mouth of the Ebro and lost his life.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ AE 1986, 369 .
  2. ^ Karl-Ludwig Elvers : Cassius [I 16]). In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 1011.
  3. ^ Caesar, De bello civili 1, 7 . See Luciano Canfora , Caesar , German Munich 2001, pp. 148–155.
  4. ↑ [Caesar], Alexandrian War 48–64; among others
personal data
SURNAME Cassius Longinus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Longinus, Quintus Cassius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tribune of the people 49 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 47 BC Chr.