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 | | GAIUs CASSIUS LONGINUS, consul 73 B.C. With his colleague, Terentius Varro Lucullus, he passed a law (lex Terentia Cassia),the object of which was to give authority for the purchase of corn at the public expense, to be retailed at a fixed price at Rome. |
 | | QUINTUS CASSIUS LONGINUS, the brother or cousin of the murderer of Caesar, quaestor of Pompey in Further Spain in 54 B.C. In 49, as tribune of the people, he strongly supported the cause of Caesar, by whom he was made governor of Further Spain. |
 | | Cassius was a pupil of Masurius Sabinus, with whom he founded a legal school, the followers of which were called Cassian.i. |
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