Aemilius Longinus

Also known as: Longinus · Family: Roman deserter · Role: assassin · First appears: Histories IV.59-62

Life events

Classicus dispatched Aemilius Longinus, who murdered Vocula.(Histories IV.59-62)
- With: Classicus Vocula
- “Classicus dispatched Aemilius Longinus, a deserter from the First legion, who quickly murdered him.”
Aemilius Longinus was killed by soldiers seeking revenge for Vocula's murder.(Histories IV.59-62 · 📍 Mainz)
- “coming by chance upon Longinus, the man who killed Vocula, they slew him with a shower of javelins”

enemies with Vocula “Vocula withdrew and began to prepare for his end, but his freedmen and slaves prevented him from forestalling by his own hand a dreadful death. As it was, Classicus dispatched Aemilius Longinus, a deserter from the First legion, who quickly murdered him.”
employer: Classicus “Classicus dispatched Aemilius Longinus, a deserter from the First legion, who quickly murdered him. For Herennius and Numisius imprisonment was thought sufficient. Classicus then assumed the uniform and insignia of a Roman general, and thus entered the camp. Hardened though he was to every kind of crime, words failed him, and he could only read out the oath. Those who were present swore allegiance to the Empire of All Gaul. He then gave high promotion to Vocula's assassin, and rewarded the others each according to the villainy of his service.”
patron: Classicus (Classicus rewarded and promoted Aemilius Longinus, Vocula's assassin.) “He then gave high promotion to Vocula's assassin, and rewarded the others each according to the villainy of his service.”

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