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Gaius Cassius Longinus (pr. 44)

Praetor in 44 BCE. Anti-Caesarian and brother in law of (et tu) Brutus

🏛️ Career

  1. 53 BCE
    (aged 29)
    Quaestor ·Syria

    Broughton: Served under Crassus in Syria as Quaestor in this year (a). He escaped from Carrhae, gathered the scattered survivors, and organized the defence of Syria (b).

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Vell. 2.46.4, tum quaestore; Dio 40.25.4
      • (b) Vell. 2.46.4; Joseph. AJ 14.119; Plut. Crass. 20-29; Dio 40.25.4-5; Eutrop. 6.18.2; Oros. 6.13.5; cf. Cic. Phil. 11.35
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Junius Brutus (pr. 44) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.250, final 1.563): 53 BCE (Quaestor) , 44 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Marcius Philippus (cos. suff. 38) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.250, final 1.250): 49 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 44 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Antonius (cos. 44) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 49 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 44 BCE (Consul)

    C. Antonius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 44 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cestius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 44 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 49 BCE
    (aged 33)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Anti-Caesarian (a).

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Cic. Att. 7.21.2-5, and 23.1, and 24, and 25; Auct. Vir. Ill. 83.4
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Junius Brutus (pr. 44) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.250, final 1.563): 53 BCE (Quaestor) , 44 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Marcius Philippus (cos. suff. 38) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.250, final 1.250): 49 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 44 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Antonius (cos. 44) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 49 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 44 BCE (Consul)

    C. Antonius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 44 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cestius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 44 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 44 BCE
    (aged 38)
    Praetor ·peregrinus ·Cyrene

    Broughton: Caesar preferred Brutus to him for the office of Praetor Urbanus (a), and Cassius therefore probably received the one next in dignity. He was the moving spirit in the conspiracy against Caesar though Brutus became the leader (b). Although he shared in the amnesty accorded to the Liberators, the revulsion of feeling in Rome and the rise of Antony compelled both him and Brutus to withdraw from the city early in April (c). He remained for some months in Latium and Campania collecting a fleet, ostensibly in connection with his appointment to charge of the grain collection by the Senate on June 5 (d). Later in the summer he was assigned the province of Cyrene, perhaps about August 1 (e). He joined Brutus in issuing an edict in sharp criticism of Antony (f), and about the end of September departed for the East, and proceeded, not to the province assigned him, but by way of Asia (g) to Syria (h).

    Sources (9)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Fam. 11.2, and 3, prescripts, and 3.3; Vell. 2.58.1; Plut. Caes. 57.3; Brut. 14.4; App. BC 2.112; 4.57; Dio 44.14.2, cf. 47.20.2; Zonar. 10. 11.
      • (a) Plut. Brut. 7.1-3; Caes. 62.2; App. BC 4.57
      • (b) Plut. Brut. 8-12, and 18-19; App. BC 2.113, and 115; cf. Nic. Dam. Vit. Caes. 24, FGrH 2A.408f.; Dio 44.14.2; Eutrop. 6.25; Auct. Vir. Ill. 83; Oros. 6.17.2; see in general D.-G. 3.624ff., esp. 633-635
      • (c) App. BC 2.148; 3.2; 4.57; Dio47.20; cf. Cic .Att. 14.5.1, and 7.1; Plut. Brut. 21; Cic. 42.3; Ant.15.1; cf. Caes. 68
      • (d) Cic. Att. 14.4. 1, and 10.1; 15.4.2, and esp. 9.1, Sicily, and 11.1-2, and 12.1, and 20.2; 16.2.4, and 3.6; Fam. 12.2, away in September
      • (e) Plut. Brut. 19.3; App. BC 3.8, Cyrenaica and Crete; cf. Phil. 2.31 and 97, on the date; Nic. Dam. Vit. Caes. 28, FGrH 2A.414, Illyricum; Dio 47.21.1, Bithynia; see T. Rice Holmes, Architect of the Roman Empire 196f.
      • (f) Cic. Fam. 12.3; cf. Att. 16.7.1 and 7; Vell. 2.62.3
      • (g) Cic. Fam. 12.14.6; Dio 47.26.1-2
      • (h) Cic. Phil. 11.27-28; Vell. 2.62.2; Dio 47.20-21; cf. Nic. Dam. Vit. Caes. 28, and 31, FGrH 2A.413f., 419f.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Junius Brutus (pr. 44) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.250, final 1.563): 53 BCE (Quaestor) , 44 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Marcius Philippus (cos. suff. 38) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 1.250, final 1.250): 49 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 44 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Antonius (cos. 44) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 49 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 44 BCE (Consul)

    C. Antonius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 44 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cestius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.750, final 0.750): 44 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Parents
    Gaius Cassius Longinus (cos. 73)
  2. Siblings
    Lucius Cassius Longinus (tr. pl. 44)
  3. Related
    Marcus Junius Brutus (pr. 44) Quintus Cassius Longinus