Cassius Cherea

Family: Roman army · Role: Centurion · First appears: Annals I (10)

Life events

• Cassius Cherea fought through armed mutineers attempting to seize him.(Annals I (10))
  • “Cassius Cherea (afterwards famous to posterity for killing Caligula), then a young man of undaunted spirit, and one of the Centurions, boldly opened himself a passage with his sword through a crowd of armed foes striving to seize him.”

Annals I (10)

• enemies with Caligula “Cassius Cherea (afterwards famous to posterity for killing Caligula), then a young man of undaunted spirit, and one of the Centurions, boldly opened himself a passage with his sword through a crowd of armed foes striving to seize him.”

Also listed in Roman Army — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.