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Gaius Cassius Longinus

Denarius (42 BC) issued by Cassius Longinus and Lentulus Spinther, depicting the crowned head of Liberty and on the reverse a sacrificial jug and lituus, from the military mint in Smyrna.

Gaius Cassius Longinus (before 85 BC – October 42 BC) was a Roman Senator, a leader of the plot to kill Julius Caesar,[1] and the brother in-law of Brutus.

  1. Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1939, reprinted 2002), p. 57 online; Elizabeth Rawson, "Caesar: civil war and dictatorship," in The Cambridge Ancient History: The last age of the Roman Republic 146–43 B.C. (Cambridge University Press, 1994), vol. 9, p. 465.

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