Lucius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reigns of Tiberius and Caligula. He was ordinary consul in the year AD 30 with Marcus Vinicius as his colleague.[1] Longinus came from an ancient and noble gens, the Cassii. He is best known as the first husband of the Emperor Caligula's sister Julia Drusilla, whom he married in 33.[2]

In early 37, he was appointed by Tiberius as a commissioner. After Caligula became Caesar later that year, he ordered Longinus to divorce Drusilla so that she could marry Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.[3] While Longinus was proconsular governor of Asia (40/41), Caligula ordered his execution based on an oracle which Caligula interpreted as indicating that Cassius would assassinate him.[4]

References

  1. ^ Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 10
  2. ^ Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars, "Life of Caligula", 21.
  3. ^ Cassius Dio, 59.11.1
  4. ^ Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars, "Life of Caligula", 57
Political offices Preceded byAulus PlautiusLucius Nonius Asprenasas Suffect consuls Roman consul 30with Marcus Vinicius Succeeded byLucius Naevius SurdinusGaius Cassius Longinusas Suffect consuls
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