The Twelve Caesars

Cassius

Family: Republican · Role: senator · First appears: Augustus 9

Life events

  • Augustus engaged in the Philippi civil war against Brutus and Cassius.(Augustus 9 · 📍 Philippi)
  • Augustus planned forcible action against Brutus and Cassius, but they escaped after foreseeing the danger.(Augustus 10)
    • With: Augustus Brutus
    • “Immediately after his return from Apollonia, he formed the design of taking forcible and unexpected measures against Brutus and Cassius; but they having foreseen the danger and made their escape”
  • Augustus resolved to impeach Brutus and Cassius for murdering Caesar.(Augustus 10)
    • With: Augustus Brutus
    • “he resolved to proceed against them by an appeal to the laws in their absence, and impeach them for the murder.”
  • Galba joined Cassius and Brutus's conspiracy against Julius Caesar and was condemned under the Pedian law.(Galba 3)
    • With: Galba Julius Caesar Brutus
    • “His grandson being incensed against Julius Caesar, whose lieutenant he had been in Gaul, because he was through him disappointed of the consulship, joined with Cassius and Brutus in the conspiracy against him, for which he was condemned by the Pedian law.”

Augustus 9

  • enemies with Augustus “He was engaged in five civil wars, namely those of Modena, Philippi, Perugia, Sicily, and Actium; the first and last of which were against Antony, and the second against Brutus and Cassius; the third against Lucius Antonius, the triumvir’s brother, and the fourth against Sextus Pompeius, the son of Cneius Pompeius.”

Augustus 10

  • enemies with Augustus “Immediately after his return from Apollonia, he formed the design of taking forcible and unexpected measures against Brutus and Cassius; but they having foreseen the danger and made their escape, he resolved to proceed against them by an appeal to the laws in their absence, and impeach them for the murder.”

Galba 3

  • enemies with Julius Caesar “His grandson being incensed against Julius Caesar, whose lieutenant he had been in Gaul, because he was through him disappointed of the consulship, joined with Cassius and Brutus in the conspiracy against him, for which he was condemned by the Pedian law.”

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