Marcus Crassus, Caesar’s quaestor
Person
Gallic War 5.24 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “The ships having been drawn up and a general assembly of the Gauls held at Samarobriva, because the corn that year had not prospered in Gaul by reason of the droughts, he was compelled to station his army in its winter-quarters differently from the former years, and to distribute the legions among several states: one of them he gave to C. Fabius, his …”
Passage-specific disambiguation; see the public identity-rule register.
Gallic War 5.24
Caesar
The ships having been drawn up and a general assembly of the Gauls held at Samarobriva, because the corn that year had not prospered in Gaul by reason of the droughts, he was compelled to station his army in its winter-quarters differently from the former years, and to distribute the legions among several states: one of them he gave to C. Fabius, his lieutenant, to be marched into the territories of the Morini; a second to Q. Cicero, into those of the Nervii; a third to L. Roscius, into those of the Essui; a fourth he ordered to winter with T. Labienus among the Remi in the confines of the Treviri ; he stationed three in Belgium ; over these he appointed M. Crassus, his questor, and L. Munatius Plancus and C. Trebonius, his lieutenants. …
Gallic War 5.46
Caesar
Caesar having received the letter about the eleventh hour of the day, immediately sends a messenger to the Bellovaci, to M. Crassus, questor there, whose winter-quarters were twenty-five miles distant from him. …
Gallic War 5.47
Caesar
Having been apprised of the arrival of Crassus by the scouts at about the third hour, he advances twenty miles that day. …
All indexed divisions · 5
Gallic War 5.24 · Gallic War 5.46 · Gallic War 5.47 · Gallic War 6.6 · Gallic War 8.46