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Longinus

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Civil War 3.34 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… On the arrival of envoys from Thessaly and Aetolia to promise that if he sent a garrison the townships of these nations would do his bidding, he sent into Thessaly L. Cassius Longinus with the legion of recruits, called the Twenty-seventh, and two hundred horse; into Aetolia, G. Calvisius Sabinus with five cohorts and a few horsemen; and he gave them …”

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Civil War 3.34

Caesar

… On the arrival of envoys from Thessaly and Aetolia to promise that if he sent a garrison the townships of these nations would do his bidding, he sent into Thessaly L. Cassius Longinus with the legion of recruits, called the Twenty-seventh, and two hundred horse; into Aetolia, G. Calvisius Sabinus with five cohorts and a few horsemen; and he gave them special instructions, as the districts were close at hand, to provide for the corn supply. …

Civil War 3.34

Alexandrian War 48

Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed

Now during the period when Caesar was besieging Pompeius at Dyrrachium, and achieving success at Old Pharsalus, and was engaged at Alexandria in operations which involved great risk, though rumour made it out to be still greater, Q. Cassius Longinus had been left behind in Spain as propraetor to govern the further province. …

Alexandrian War 48

Civil War 3.36

Caesar

… Scipio, lingering nowhere in Macedonia, made his way to Domitius with great speed, and when about twenty miles oft suddenly turned aside to Thessaly to Cassius Longinus. …

Civil War 3.36

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