Caius Cassius

Family: conspirators · Role: chief conspirator · First appears: Julius Caesar 80

Life events

• The conspirators united their counsels instead of continuing to plot separately.(Julius Caesar 80)
  • With: Marcus Brutus Decimus Brutus
  • “Instead, therefore, of caballing any longer separately, in small parties, they now united their counsels;”
• The conspirators approved the senate-house and the ides of March for their attack on Julius Caesar.(Julius Caesar 80 · 📍 senate-house built by Pompey)
  • With: Julius Caesar Marcus Brutus Decimus Brutus
  • “About sixty persons were engaged in the conspiracy against him, of whom Caius Cassius, and Marcus and Decimus Brutus were the chief. It was at first debated amongst them, whether they should attack him in the Campus Martius when he was taking the votes of the tribes, and some of them should throw him off the bridge, whilst others should be ready to stab him upon his fall; or else in the Via Sacra, or at the entrance of the theatre. But after public notice had been given by proclamation for the senate to assemble upon the ides of March [15th March], in the senate-house built by Pompey, they approved both of the time and place, as most fitting for their purpose.”
• Nero killed Cassius Longinus for keeping Caius Cassius’s bust among his ancestors.(Nero 37)
  • With: Nero Cassius Longinus Julius Caesar
  • “The charge against Cassius Longinus, a lawyer who had lost his sight, was, that he kept amongst the busts of his ancestors that of Caius Cassius, who was concerned in the death of Julius Caesar.”

Julius Caesar 80

• enemies with Julius Caesar “About sixty persons were engaged in the conspiracy against him, of whom Caius Cassius, and Marcus and Decimus Brutus were the chief.”

Nero 37

• younger kin: Cassius Longinus “The charge against Cassius Longinus, a lawyer who had lost his sight, was, that he kept amongst the busts of his ancestors that of Caius Cassius, who was concerned in the death of Julius Caesar.”
• enemies with Julius Caesar “The charge against Cassius Longinus, a lawyer who had lost his sight, was, that he kept amongst the busts of his ancestors that of Caius Cassius, who was concerned in the death of Julius Caesar.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.