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Gaius Cassius Longinus 2
Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman consul in 73 BC (with Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus). As proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul in the next year, 72 BC, during the Third Servile War, he was defeated by Spartacus and his followers near Mutina (now Modena) as they were trying to break through to unoccupied Gaul.
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