Cassius Longinus may refer to: In descending chronological order: * Cassius Longinus, end of 2nd century, beginning of 3rd century, historian only known through FGrHist 259 *

Cassius Longinus (philosopher) Cassius Longinus (; ; c. 213 – 273 AD) was a Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic. Born in either Emesa or Athens, he studied at Alexandria under Ammonius Saccas and Origen the Pagan, and taught for thirty years in Athens, one of ...

(213 – 273 AD), a Greek rhetorician and philosopher *

Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 30) Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman jurist and politician from the first century AD. A grandnephew of Servius Sulpicius Rufus, he was also a nephew or great-grandson of Gaius Cassius Longinus, one of Caesar's assassins. Longinus was suffect consul o ...

( 30–41 AD), a Roman jurist and great grandson or nephew of Gaius Cassius Longinus, who committed tyrannicide *

Longinus Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the name of the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance, who in apostolic and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. His name first appeared in the apoc ...

, also called Cassius in some traditions, the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus on the cross *

Gaius Cassius Longinus Gaius Cassius Longinus (; – 3 October 42 BC) was a Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC. He was the brother-in-law of Brutus, another leader of the conspir ...

( 86 – 42 BC), usually known as Cassius, a Roman senator and one of Julius Caesar's assassins in 44 BC *

Quintus Cassius Longinus Quintus Cassius Longinus, the brother or cousin of Cassius (the assassin of Julius Caesar), was a governor in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal) for Caesar. Cassius was one of the '' tresviri monetales'' of the ...

, a tribune in 49 BC and supporter of Julius Caesar * Lucius Cassius Longinus (praetor 66 BC), and part of the

Second Catilinarian conspiracy The Catilinarian conspiracy, sometimes Second Catilinarian conspiracy, was an attempted coup d'état by Catiline, Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline) to overthrow the Roman consuls of 63 BC – Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero and Gaius Anton ...

Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 73 BC) Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman consul in 73 BC (together with Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus). Cassius and his colleague passed the ''lex Terentia Cassia'' that ordered the state to buy up grain in Sicily and sell it for a low price in Rome ...

* Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 96 BC) *

Lucius Cassius Longinus (consul 107 BC) Lucius Cassius Longinus (c. 151 – 107 BC) was consul of the Roman Republic in 107 BC. His colleague was Gaius Marius, then serving the first of his seven consulships. He was probably the eldest son of Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla, consul i ...

Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla was a Roman politician. He served as consul in 127 BC and censor at the following lustrum in 125 BC. His first recorded office was that of tribune of the plebs in 137 BC. As a tribune of the plebs, h ...

, consul 127 BC *

Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 171 BC) Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman consul in the year 171 BCE, together with Publius Licinius Crassus. He was probably praetor urbanus in 174 BC. Cassius Longinus was not given a command position as he had hoped during the Third Macedonian War, a ...

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