person
Quintus Cassius Longinus
Q. Cassius
Caesarian governor of Further Spain in 48-47 BC, notorious for his rapacity and the mutiny it provoked; the man Pollio names as "Q. Caesar" (a manuscript corruption) as the precedent for Balbus's misconduct. Not to be confused with the tyrannicide C. Cassius Longinus.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 10.32 §2 the same things Quintus Caesar did
"Quintus Caesar" is a manuscript corruption for Q. Cassius Longinus, the rapacious Caesarian governor of Further Spain in 48-47 BC whose extortions provoked a mutiny; Pollio holds him up as the byword for misrule that Balbus is now imitating.