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CASSIUS, GAIUS

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 462 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAR-CAU
CASSIUS, GAIUS , Latin poet, general and politician, called
Parmensis from his birthplace Parma,was one of the murderers of Julius Caesar, and after his death joined the party of Brutus and his namesake
Cassius
  the conspirator. In 43 B.C. he was in command of the
fleet
  on the
coast
  of
Asia
 , but after the battle of
Philippi
  joined Sextus Pompeius in Sicily. When Pompeius, having been defeated in a naval engagement at Naulochus by the
fleet
  of Octavian under
Agrippa
 , fled to
Asia
 ,
Cassius
  went over to Antony, and took part in the battle of Actium (31). He afterwards fled to Athens, where he was soon put to death by Octavian, whom he had offended by writing an abusive
letter
  (Suetonius,
Augustus
 , 4). Cassius is credited with satires, elegies, epigrams and tragedies. Some hexameters with the title Cassii
Orpheus are by Antonius Thylesius,an Italian of the 17th century.
Horace
  appears to have thought well of Cassius as a poet, for he asks Tibullus whether he intends to compete with the opuscula (probably the elegies) of Cassius (Epistles, i. 4. 3). The story in the
Horace
  scholia, that L. Varius Rufus published his famous tragedy Thyestes from an MS. which he found amongst the papers of Cassius after his death, is due to a confusion of Cassius's murderer, Q. Attius Varus, with the tragedian (Appian, B.C. v. 2, 139; Cicero, ad Pam. xii. 13; Vell. Pat. ii. 87; Orosius, vi. 19; see also the diffuse treatise of A. Weichert, De L. Varii et Cassii Parmensis Vita et Carminibus, 1836). Cassius Parmensis must not be confused with Cassius Etruscus (Horace, Satires, i. 1o. 6o), an improviser, who is said to have used enough
paper
  to furnish his funeral pyre.


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