person
Publius Licinius Crassus
P. Crassus
also: Publius Crassus, young Crassus
Younger son of the triumvir M. Crassus, husband of Cornelia; served brilliantly under Caesar in Gaul (commander of cavalry against the Aquitani) and accompanied his father to Parthia, where he died in the cavalry charge that broke at Carrhae in June 53 BC. Cicero's favourite of the rising Republican nobility.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 5.8 §4 your two Crassi
Marcus (the elder son, quaestor under Caesar) and Publius (the younger, Cicero's literary admirer, killed with his father at Carrhae in 53 BC). Cicero names them as the fittest judges of his goodwill toward their father.
- Ad Familiares 5.8 §4 as a second parent
Alterum parentem: Cicero says young Publius Crassus reveres and loves him almost as a father, the warmest note in this otherwise diplomatic letter of reconciliation.
- Ad Familiares 13.16 §1 P. Crassus
Publius Licinius Crassus, younger son of the triumvir; served as a cavalry commander under Caesar in Gaul, then died at Carrhae in 53 BC. The letter's standing is built on Cicero's and Caesar's shared affection for the dead man, whose freedman is the person commended.
- Ad Familiares 13.16 §1 P. Crassus
Publius Licinius Crassus, younger son of the triumvir; served as cavalry commander under Caesar in Gaul, then died in the cavalry charge that broke at Carrhae in June 53 BC.