Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 73 BC)
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Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 73 BC)
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Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman consul in 73 BC. Cassius and his colleague passed the lex Terentia Cassia that ordered the state to buy up grain in Sicily and sell it for a low price in Rome. As proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul in the next year, 72 BC, during the Third Servile War, Cassius tried to stop Spartacus and his followers near Mutina (Modena) as the slave army was trying to break through to unoccupied Gaul, but suffered defeat and barely managed to get away alive. Two years later, Cassius
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Roman senator and general
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2023-08-31T10:39:04Z
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