Crassus
historical figure · 8 works · 10 mentions · 10 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman triumvir cited as an example of fortune's reversal, killed by the Parthians.
over Crassus a cruel and insolent Parthian.
And of him too you may say that no less than Socrates he gave himself up, amid slaves, to liberty, unless perhaps you think that Gnaeus Pompey and Caesar and Crassus were the allies of liberty.
In short, you may bring forward into the midst any one you wish of those whose names are counted with Crassus and Licinus.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman political figure and member of the first triumvirate alongside Pompey and Caesar.
During the existence of the political combination of Pompey, Cæsar, and Crassus, known as the first triumvirate, P.
On Moral Ends
Roman general whose campaign against the Euphrates is cited as evidence of insatiable want, contrasted with the wise man's true wealth
more rightly rich than Crassus, who, had he not been in want, would never have wished to cross the Euphrates with no cause of war.
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman orator depicted by Cicero as the speaker of an anecdote about courtroom ignorance.
Ea res agatur cujus rei dies fuit, we may quote an anecdote which Cicero puts into the mouth of Crassus in illustration of the gross ignorance occasionally displayed by the Roman advocate:
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman triumvir criticized for planning an unprovoked campaign across the Euphrates.
” To which may be added, the words of Cicero, who maintains those wars to be unjust, which are made without sufficient cause.
On Providence
Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman triumvir, named as one of Cato's powerful enemies.
let him be set at once against Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus.
On the Happy Life
Wealthy Roman used as the upper benchmark against which Marcus Cato's riches are measured.
Marcus Cato, while he praised Curius and Coruncanius and that age in which it was a charge for the censor's reproof to own a few small plates of silver, himself possessed four million sesterces—less, no doubt, than Crassus, but more than Cato the Censor.
Apologeticum
Roman statesman noted for wealth.
Who is loftier than Pompey, more fortunate than Sulla, richer than Crassus, more eloquent than Tully?