Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 171 BC)

Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 171 BC)

Infobox Military Person
name= Gaius Cassius Longinus
lived=
placeofbirth= Unknown
placeofdeath=


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allegiance= Roman Empire
serviceyears= 117 BCE, 154 BCE
rank= Consul, censor
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commands= Roman army
battles= Third Macedonian War in Italy
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laterwork=

Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman consul in the year 171 BCE, together with Publius Licinius Crassus.

Cassius Longinus was not given a command position as he had hoped during the Third Macedonian War, and instead was sent to the northern border of Italy in the province of Illyria to man a defense against attacks from Macedonia. Ignoring his orders, he decided to gather his army at Aquileia with thirty days worth of supplies and moved south into Macedonia. The Roman senate learned of his actions and recalled him back to Rome. [cite book|last=Goldsworthy|first=Adrian|title=In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|year=2004|pages=89] While Cassius Longinus was on his way back to Rome, he drove his army over the Alps, mercilessly pillaging Scordisci and other Celtic villages, carrying off thousands of people to be used as slaves. The people were so outraged that they took their case directly to the senate. The senate found that their evidence was indeed valid, and delivered to them various gifts as reparations. [cite book|last=Ó hÓgáin|first=Dáithí|title=The Celts: A History|publisher=Boydell Press|year=2002|pages=115]

After Cassius Longinus's return to Rome, he became a censor in 154 BCE. A stone theater, the first of its kind in Rome that he had constructed, was declared to be a violation of "pudicitia" by Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, and was destroyed upon orders from the senate. [cite book|last=Boederman|first=John|title=The Cambridge Ancient History|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|pages=510]

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