person
Gaius Licinius Crassus
C. Licinius Crassus
also: C. Licini Crassi, Gaius Licinius Crassus
Tribune of the plebs in 145 BC who proposed transferring the co-optation of priestly colleges to popular election; the bill was defeated. He was the first to turn and address the people facing the Forum rather than the Comitium.
Reading notes
- Laelius, On Friendship §96 the law on the priesthoods proposed by Gaius Licinius Crassus
Gaius Licinius Crassus, tribune in 145 BC, proposed transferring the co-optation of vacancies in the priestly colleges from the colleges themselves to popular election; the bill failed. He was first to address the people facing the Forum.