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Gaius Cassius Longinus (cos. 96)

Maybe son of Lucius Ravilla (RE III, p. 1726). Elected consul without previously being tribune of the plebs (Cicero Pro Plancio 52)

🏛️ Career

  1. 99 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: The latest possible year for his praetorship under the Leges Annales

    Sources (1)
    • MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 96) (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 99 BCE (Praetor) , 96 BCE (Consul)

    C. Coelius Caldus (cos. 94) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 99 BCE (Praetor)

    A. Postumius Albinus (cos. 99) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 99 BCE (Consul)

    C. Valerius Flaccus (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 96 BCE (Praetor)

    L. (Sempronius) Asellio (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 96 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 96 BCE
    Consul · Co-consul: Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 96)

    MT: Attested in inscriptions (CIL 12.2.889, AE), in the official fasti (Capitolini, Hydatiani), and in later chronicles (Chronograph of 354, Paschal Chronicle, Cassiodorus). Literary confirmation from Asconius, Obsequens, and Cicero.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.889; Ann. Epig. 1945, no. 96- 1946, no. 161, if genuine; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f., 128, 478 f.; Ascon. In Scaur. 21 C; Obseq.49; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Domitius, Cic. Deiot. 31.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 96) (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 99 BCE (Praetor) , 96 BCE (Consul)

    C. Coelius Caldus (cos. 94) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 99 BCE (Praetor)

    A. Postumius Albinus (cos. 99) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 99 BCE (Consul)

    C. Valerius Flaccus (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 96 BCE (Praetor)

    L. (Sempronius) Asellio (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 96 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Siblings
    Lucius Cassius Longinus (tr. pl. 104)