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Gaius Cassius Longinus (Classical Latin: [ˈɡaːi.ʊs ˈkassi.ʊs ˈlɔŋɡɪnʊs]; c. 86 BC – 3 October 42 BC) was a Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC.
Gaius Cassius Longinus (died 42 bc, near Philippi, Macedonia [now in Greece]) was the prime mover in the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 bc. Little is known of his early life.
Gaius Cassius Longinus (flourished 1st century ad) was a prominent Roman jurist, a pupil of the famous jurist Massurius Sabinus, with whom he founded a legal school. Cassius was consul in ad 30, proconsul of Asia in 40–41, and governor of Syria in 45–49.
The soldier who pierced Jesus’ side is named Longinus in the pseudepigraphal Gospel of Nicodemus. Here are the details that the legend of Longinus adds to the biblical story: a centurion from Cappadocia named Gaius Cassius Longinus, who was nearly blind, was assigned to crucify Jesus.
Gaius Cassius Longinus, better known as Cassius, was a Roman senator and military general who had made the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. He was Brutus’s brother-in-law and was married to his half-sister, Junia.
Gaius Cassius Longinus (1), the tyrannicide (killer of *Caesar), was quaestor 54 bce and proquaestor under *Crassus in 53. He escaped from *Carrhae, collected the remnants of the army, and organized the defence of Syria, staying on as proquaestor till 51: in 52 he crushed an insurrection in Judaea and in 51 repelled a Parthian invasion.
Gaius Cassius Longinus was born on October 3, 85 BCE. He was a Roman commander, one of Caesar’s assassins who later fought against the Second Triumvirate. One of the last defenders of the republic.