Gaius Cassius
🏛️ Career
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Praetor
Broughton: MRR2 (from Promagistrates notes): Proconsul in Asia (a). Co-operated with the Roman Legates (see below, Legates) in restoring Nicomedes of Bithynia and Ariobarzanes of Cappadocia to their kingdoms, and in urging them in their turn to make raids on the territory of Mithridates of Pontus (b).
Sources (2)
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) App. Mith. 11, and 24
- (b) App. Mith. 11-12; cf. Liv. Per. 74, and 76; Sall. Hist. 4. 69.10M; Iustin. 38.3.4-10, and 4.4-5, and 5.10; Dio 30-35, fr. 99; see Th. Reinach, Mithridates Eupator 109ff. [trans. Goetz]
Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member
C. Caelius (pr. 90) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.500, final 1.500): 90 BCE (Praetor)
Gn. Octavius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.500, final 1.500): 90 BCE (Praetor)
L. Cornelius Cinna (cos. 87) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.500, final 1.500): 90 BCE (Praetor)
L. Cornelius Merula (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.500, final 1.500): 90 BCE (Praetor)
L. Postumius (pr. 90) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.500, final 1.500): 90 BCE (Praetor)
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Broughton, MRR2
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