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Gaius Cassius Longinus (cos. 96) edit

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

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Career

  1. 99 BCE
    Praetor edit

    The latest possible year for his praetorship under the Leges Annales (MRR2)

  2. 96 BCE
    Consul edit

    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.

Family

No family relations recorded.

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