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Publius Servilius Casca Longus
Casca
also: Casca, P. Servilius Casca, Cascae, Casca Longus
Publius Servilius Casca Longus, tribune of the plebs 44 BC and one of the Liberators who assassinated Julius Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC, striking the first blow; he subsequently joined Brutus and Cassius in the East, and died after Philippi (42 BC).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 16.15 §3 the tribunate of our Casca
P. Servilius Casca, one of Caesar's assassins, was tribune-elect for 43 BC; Cicero treats Octavian's attitude toward Casca's tribunate as the decisive test of whether the young man is friendly to the "tyrant-slayers."
- Ad M. Brutum 1.17 §1 he killed more than one man and must confess himself an assassin first before he can fling the charge at Casca
Publius Servilius Casca was the conspirator who struck the first blow at Julius Caesar on the Ides of March; Brutus accuses Cicero of hypocrisy for attacking Casca, since Cicero himself arranged extrajudicial killings of the Catilinarians and cannot consistently condemn political violence.
- Ad M. Brutum 1.18 §1 Casca was there, and Labeo and Scaptius
Publius Servilius Casca (the conspirator who struck the first blow at Caesar) and Quintus Antistius Labeo (another Liberator and jurist) and Marcus Scaptius (a Caesaricide associate) were present at Servilia's council on 25 July 43 BC, the inner circle of the republican faction in Rome advising on whether to recall Brutus.