person
Lucius Cassius
L. Cassius
also: L. Cassium, L. Cassius
A subscriptor (junior prosecutor) at the trial of Plancius and a friend of Cicero, who delivered an elegant and learned speech. Cicero answers his arguments, most of which concerned Cicero himself.
Reading notes
- Second Philippic §35 the Cassian formula
"Cui bono?" ("to whose advantage?"), the maxim of the stern judge L. Cassius Longinus Ravilla, used to detect the gainer behind a crime; Cicero turns it on Antony, who profited from Caesar's death.