Lucius Licinius Crassus

Lucius Licinius Crassus ( 140 BC *, † 91 BC) was a Roman politician of the late Republic, was famous mainly as a speaker.

He stepped even as a 19 - year-old young man to be generally admired orator on, was quaestor in the province of Asia, and used to staying there to rhetorical and philosophical studies. On his return to Rome, he was tribune 107 BC to 100 BC kurulischer aedile, consul 95 BC, in the following year proconsul in Gaul (probably Cisalpine Gaul, perhaps also Gallia Narbonensis also ), 92 v. BC censor. From an unknown date until his death he was Augur.

He expressed his views after belonged to the moderate aristocracy; therefore, he reached into that speech, which he delivered as a 19 -year-old boy, Gaius Papirius Carbo, former followers of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, at her, said 106 BC for the Servilische law by which the Senators a short time back in was the possession of the dishes came, also defended Quintus Servilius Caepio later than this in 103 BC indicted by the tribune Gaius Norbanus; Furthermore, he brought with his colleague in the consulate, Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the Lex Licinia Mucia, the unlawful practice of citizenship was prohibited by the allies.

In his house on the Palatine, he taught the end of the 90s Marcus Tullius Cicero and his brother Quintus, with particular rhetoric and philosophy were the focus. In 91 BC Crassus defended in the Senate aimed at reconciling the Senate and People's Party laws of Marcus Livius Drusus, but died as a result of the excitement with which he fought his opponent, the consul Gaius Marcius Philippus. He stood for his eloquence and legal scholarship in high regard. Cicero makes him in his work De oratore ( " About the speaker " ) occur in conversation with Anthony and others and compares Crassus ' oratory in his dialogue Brutus with his own. His most famous trial was the causa Curiana, in which he successfully fought the basic judgment in a speech Quintus Mucius Scaevola battle against that wills shall be construed according to the intention of the author.

The wife of Crassus was Mucia, the daughter of the consul of 117 BC, Quintus Mucius Scaevola ( Augur ), and Laelia. From the marriage of Crassus and Mucia Two daughters were born. The older Licinia married the praetor of 93 BC, Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, the younger Licinia was the wife of Gaius Marius the Younger, son of seven times Consul Gaius Marius.