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  Longinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Longinus, a Greek literary critic who may have lived in the 1st century CE, wrote a treatise On the Sublime.
Longinus is also the name given in Christian mythology to the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus on the cross.
Longinus is also a possible name of a Roman governor of Britain c.
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 CASSIUS - LoveToKnow Article on CASSIUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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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 Lean and Hungry Cassius
Cassius was one of several leaders of the plot and, after the fact, it was decided that he had been the key plotter.
Cassius eventually went back to his old power base in Syria, and there after defeating Antony's governor, Dolabella, and taking possession of the ill-fated horse, he raised a big army from the legions that were loyal to him personally.
Cassius, seeing only the smaller picture, the enemy troops in his camp, and not knowing that salvation was at hand, ordered his trusted shield bearer to help him commit suicide.
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 Cassius (gens) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The gens Cassia, nomen Cassius, was one of the oldest families of ancient Rome.
The road Via Cassia that went to Arretium was built by the family.
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 Gaius, The Institutes: The Online Library of Liberty
It was the form that was current in the verbal juristic maxims of this and a later period—brief, gnomic, rhythmic and imperative1.
Gaius attributes to these decrees ‘the binding force of law’; and it does not seem that the early doubts as to whether the Senate could pass ordinances immediately binding on the community1 survived the beginning of the Principate.
Later it must have been possible to elicit the opinion of several patented jurists on a single issue; for the Emperor Hadrian framed the rule that, in the case of conflicting responses, a Judex should be entitled to use his own discretion7.
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 Longinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hyperbaton, Longinus observes, contributes to a sublime style...
Scriblerian, nor is the sublime of Dionysius Longinus identical with the tradition that has...
If you were referred here by a link in an article, you might want to go back and fix the link to point directly to the intended page.
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 CASSIUS - Encyclopedia Britannica - CASSIUS - JCSM's Study Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is doubtful whether this Cassius (who is often called by the additional name Varus) is identical with the Varus who was proscribed by the triumvirs, and put to death at Minturnae (43).
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
Cassius sent his troops into winter quarters, hastened on board ship at Malaca with his ill-gotten gains, but was wrecked in a storm at the mouth of the Iberus (Ebro).
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 Longinus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
(additional info and facts about Longinus) Longinus, a Greek literary (Anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something) critic who may have lived in the 1st century CE, wrote a treatise On the Sublime.
Bishop Longinus was a missionary working among the (additional info and facts about Nabataeans) Nabataeans during Emperor (Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman Law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565)) Justinian I's reign.
(additional info and facts about Longinus) Longinus is also a possible name of a Roman governor of (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) Britain c.
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 Gaius (name) - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gaius or Caius was a common Roman praenomen.
Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus (or Gaius Vipsanius Agrippa)
Gaius Papirius Carbo, a tribune of 90 BC
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 Gaius Cassius Longinus --  Encyclopædia Britannica
After the death of Caesar he joined the party of Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus (the more famous Cassius and prime mover of the assassination).
Gaius Maecenas was a diplomat and counselor to the Roman emperor Augustus.
The Roman orator, poet, and historian Gaius Asinius Pollio wrote a contemporary history that provided much of the material for the Greek historians Appian and Plutarch.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 493 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The weakest ground of all, as he considers it, for supposing that there were two Pomponii is that Julianus often cites Pompo­nius ; and it is supposed that as Pomponius was a younger man than Julianus, and of less note, that Julianus would not have cited him.
His period may be approximately determined from the fact that Julianus is the last of the jurists whom he mentions, and the period of the activity of Julianus belongs to the reign of Hadrianus.
The extract from the single book of the Enchiridion, De Origine Juris, is our chief au­thority for the Roman jurists, to the time of Ju­lianus, and for our knowledge of the two sectae or scholae.
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 Cassius (gens) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The gens Cassia, (additional info and facts about nomen) nomen Cassius, was one of the oldest families of (additional info and facts about ancient Rome) ancient Rome.
The road Via Cassia that went to (additional info and facts about Arretium) Arretium was built by the family.
A modern "Gens Cassia" is the "founding gens" of the (additional info and facts about reenactment) reenactment group (or (additional info and facts about micronation) micronation) Nova Roma; see.
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(45) No one dared to oppose the proposal of Cassius, so the dissonant voices of those who were for mercy brought up the number, the age, the gender and the undoubted innocence of the majority: but the side that favored execution won out.
The most important of these are the Digest, the compendium of the opinions of jurists commisioned by the emperor Justinian in the sixth century, and the Codex Justinianus (abbreviated CJ), the compendium of rulings by earlier emperors (also compiled on the instructions of Justinian).
The discussion of the jurists suggests that the main change was to substitute one word for house (domus) for another (tectum).
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 CASSIUS - Online Information article about CASSIUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is doubtful whether this Cassius (who is often called by the additional name Varus) is identical with the Varus who was proscribed by the triumvirs, and put to death at See also:
A.D. Plutarch, Brutus, passim, Crassus, 27, 29, Caesar, 62, 69; Dio Cassius xl.
Lepidus, proconsul of Hither Spain, to whom Cassius had applied for assistance, negotiated an arrangement with Marcellus whereby Cassius was to be allowed to go See also:
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Laws enacted by Gaius Gracchus did all of the following except which: a) prohibited military conscription before the age of 17, b) provided clothing for military troops, c) regulated the grain supply in Rome, d) provided for construction of a new Roman aqueduct, or e) established colonies at Tarentum and elsewhere.
Gaius Gracchus provided that the rights of tax-gathering in what province be put up for auction in Rome?
Gaius Laelius brought up agrarian reform for discussion/debate during either his praetorship (145 BC) or possibly his consulship (140 BC).
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 The Roman Empire
In 44 BC Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman leader who ruled the Roman Republic as a dictator, was assassinated.
Gaius Maecenas, who was descended from an Etruscan noble family, became the emperor's closest domestic advisor, and the general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who was also of Italian descent, married the emperor's daughter, Julia.
The historian Dio Cassius wrote that Commodus, dressed as a gladiator in the arena, once killed an ostrich and held up its head to the senators "to show that he had the same fate in store for us." Commodus liked to exhibit his strength and found the games more interesting than the business of empire.
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 Nero
He it was of whom the orator Licinius Crassus said that it was not surprising that he had a brazen beard, since he had a face of iron and a heart of lead.
His son, who was praetor at the time, summoned Gaius Caesar to an investigation before the Senate at the close of his consulship, because it was thought that his administration had been in violation of the auspices and the laws.
After the death of both leaders he retained the fleet of which he had previously been made commander, and even added to it, and it was not until his party had been everywhere routed that he surrendered it to Marcus Antonius, of his own free will and as if it were a great favor.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 557 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He is several times cited by some of the most eminent of his successors—Ju-lianus, Valens, Gaius, Ulpian, and Paulus.
Ex Cassio Libri XV., commentaries upon some work of Caius Cassius Longinus, a leader of the school to which Javolenus belonged.
In this work he rarely departs from the opinion of Cassius, whom in two passages he cites by his praenomen Gaius alone.
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 Commentary: Pliny Epistulae 7.24
Daughter of Gaius Ummidius Quadratus, who was a consular senator under Claudius and Nero, her family came from the town of Casinum.
There a tomb bears her name and inscriptions indicate that she was a patroness of the city, responsible for the construction of the amphitheater and perhaps also the theater, acts of philanthropy strangely absent from Pliny's assessment of her.
Cassianae scholae: Gaius Cassius Longinus, descendant of the Cassius who plotted Caesar's murder, was a famous jurisconsult under Claudius and Nero.
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 Kautsky: Foundations of Christianity (3. Roman Thought 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
According to Dio Cassius one of the causes of the rebellion of the Britons under Nero was that Seneca had forced on them a loan of ten million denarii ($1,700,000) at a high rate of interest and then called it all in at once with the utmost severity.
The third emperor of the Julian dynasty, Gaius, nicknamed Caligula (little boot), had himself honored in Rome, and in his lifetime, not only as a demi-god but as a full god, and felt himself to be one.
All three had decided talent, and of the last two Longinus says, although in general he would have none of a wisdom hostile to life and sound reason, they were the only philosophers of his time whose writings were readable.
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 Gaius Cassius --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
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During his long reign, which began in 27 BC during the Golden Age of Latin literature, the Roman world also entered a splendid era of civil peace and prosperity.
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 Roman Decadence 37-96 by Sanderson Beck
Gaius Caesar was born on the last day of August in 12 CE, and as the youngest son of the popular Germanicus he was affectionately called Caligula for the military boots he wore as a child among the soldiers on the Rhine.
According to Dio Cassius many were put to death, while many others purchased their lives from Tigellinus for a great price.
Although later attributed to Dionysius of Halicarnassus or Longinus, the author of a first-century treatise On the Sublime is considered unknown by scholars.
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 Roman Stoicism (Chapter 16: Stoicism in Roman History and Literature)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Stoic tradition continued in the family of Cordus, and to his daughter Marcia, as a fellow-member of the sect, Seneca addressed the well-known Consolatio; but the title of ‘old Romans’ describes far better the true leanings of the men of whom Cordus was the forerunner.
In the reign of Gaius (Caligula) we first find philosophers as such exposed to persecution; and we may infer that, like the Jews, they resisted tacitly or openly the claim of the emperor to be worshipped as a god.
The leader of the merciless majority was C. Cassius Longinus, a celebrated jurist, and one who regularly celebrated the honors of Cassius the conspirator.
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- Gaius Asinius Pollio, Roman Soldier, Orator and Politician, born.
- Gaius Plinius Secndus (the Elder), Roman Scholar, born.
- Gaius Plinius Secundus (the Elder), Roman Scholar, died.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Maecenas Gaius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Maecenas Gaius
Virgil was born Publius Vergilius Maro on October 15, 70 bc in Andes, a village near Mantua, the son of a farmer.
Horace's verse attracted Virgil, then Poet Laureate, who, about 38 bc, introduced Horace to the statesman Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, a patron of the...
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 Gaius Cassius Longinus
Gaius Cassius Longinus was a descendant of the famed Cassius of the same name, and a famous jurist, governor and one of the sober figures in the Emperor during the reigns of Caligula and Nero.
In 58, he criticized Nero for having too many honors, later supporting the policy of slaughtering the slaves belonging to a murdered owner.
In 65, charged with revering too greatly his ancestor Cassius, he was banished by Nero to Sardinia.
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 Index to Horace Satires:Epistles ABC
Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman General, Consul and Dictator from 49 to 44 BC when he was assassinated by Brutus, Cassius and the other conspirators.
Gaius Licinius Calvus, the orator and poet, friend of Catullus and Propertius and a member of the Alexandrian School.
He was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, as was the better known Cassius Longinus.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Scaevola Gaius Mucius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Scaevola Gaius Mucius
Scaevola, Gaius Mucius, Roman hero from the 6th century bc.
Flaminius, Gaius (died 217 bc), Roman statesman and general, of plebeian family.
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