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Marcus Licinius Crassus (86 or 85 BC – c. 49 BC [1]) was a quaestor of the Roman Republic in 54 BC. He was the elder son of the Marcus Licinius Crassus who formed the political alliance known as the "First Triumvirate" with Pompey and Caesar.
The First Triumvirate was an informal political alliance among three prominent politicians in the late Roman Republic: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gaius Julius Caesar. The republican constitution had many veto points.
The informal First Triumvirate of Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus was a loose political alliance arranged in 60 or 59 BC that lasted until the death of Crassus in the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC; they had no official capacity or function as actual triumviri, and the term is used as a nickname.
Marcus Licinius Crassus was a member of the First Triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. Marcus Licinius Crassus may also refer to: Marcus Licinius Crassus (quaestor 54 BC), son of the above; Marcus Licinius Crassus (consul 30 BC), son of the above, who led a successful campaign in Macedonia and Thrace from 29 to 27 BC
The Second Triumvirate (the Tresviri reipublicae constituendae) of Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Mark Antony, and Lepidus, formed in 43 BCE as an official, legally established institution, formally recognized by the Roman Senate in the Lex Titia and lasted de facto until the fall of Lepidus in 36 BCE, de jure until 32 BCE.
Described as a traditional Caesar dressing, it contains lemon juice, parmesan and romano cheeses, and adds in vinegar and dried garlic, presumably for some extra flavor. I found it for $3.99.
When in February 44 Caesar was elected dictator for life by the Senate, he made Lepidus magister equitum for the second time. [7] The brief alliance in power of Caesar and Lepidus came to a sudden end when Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 (the Ides of March). Caesar had dined at Lepidus's house the night before his murder.
The three Roman politician-generals of the First Triumvirate — Caesar, Pompey and Crassus — meet at the Luca Conference at the town of Luca (modern Lucca, in Tuscany), near Pisa, where they renewed their fraying political alliance, and further cemented the three men's increasing consolidation of power in the Roman Republic.