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CASSIUS

Caius Cassius Longinus was a Roman soldier. He was one of the assassins of Julius Caesar. In the civil war that broke out between Pompey and Caesar he espoused the cause of the former, and, as commander of his naval forces, rendered him important services. After the battle of Pharsalia he was apparently reconciled with Caesar, but later was amongst the more active of the conspirators who assassinated him in 44 BC. He then, together with Brutus, raised an army, but they were met by Octavianus and Antony at Philippi. The wing which Cassius commanded being defeated, he imagined that all was lost, and killed himself in 42 BC.
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