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- noun prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC)
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Autronius Paetus; Cassius Longinus; Marcus Laeca; the two would-be assassins, Vargunteius and Vorenelius; and many more passed through the courts in a dismal procession.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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His acolytes took their places behind him—men like the bankrupt gambler Curius and the immensely fat Cassius Longinus, whose flab occupied the space of two normal senators.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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In seventh place when it came to brains Cicero placed Cassius Longinus—“that barrel of lard”—who was sometimes called the fattest man in Rome.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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In seventh place when it came to brains Cicero placed Cassius Longinus—“that barrel of lard”—who was sometimes called the fattest man in Rome.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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When she was afterwards married to Cassius Longinus, a man of consular rank, he took her from him, and kept her constantly as if she were his lawful wife.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Pharsalia, Cassius Longinus, Trebonius, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus had been sent to govern the province.
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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S.C. passed in B.C. 154, when Cassius Longinus began to build a theatre of stone -- a law that was not repealed till some years later.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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When she was afterwards married to Cassius Longinus, a man of consular rank, he took her from him, and kept her constantly as if she were his lawful wife.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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The charge against Cassius Longinus, a lawyer who had lost his sight, was, that he kept amongst the busts of his ancestors that of Caius Cassius, who was concerned in the death of Julius Caesar.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Cassius Longinus also is present, my wife's guardian and trustee, a man of the loftiest and most irreproachable character.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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