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Lucius Licinius Crassus

Crassus (the orator)

also: L. Crassus

The supreme Roman orator of Cicero's youth (140-91 BC); consul 95, censor 92, princeps senatus. Speaker in De Oratore; his death of pleurisy ten days after the Ides of September 91 BC frames Book 3 as elegy. Not to be confused with M. Licinius Crassus the triumvir.

Mentioned in 11 works (24 total)

On Invention rhetoric · 1 mention

§2.111 Lucius Licinius Crassus

On His House speeches · 1 mention

§50 L. Crassus

On the Consular Provinces speeches · 1 mention

§19 L. Crassus

For Lucius Cornelius Balbus speeches · 3 mentions

On the Orator rhetoric · 8 mentions

Against Piso speeches · 1 mention

§62 L. Crassus

For Gnaeus Plancius speeches · 1 mention

§33 L. Crassus

Ad Familiares 9.21 letters · 1 mention

§3 L. Crassus

Brutus rhetoric · 5 mentions

Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention

§18 L. Crassus

Stoic Paradoxes philosophy · 1 mention

§41 L. Crassus