Lucius Crassus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
L. Crassus · that friend of yours
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman orator recalled as a great admirer of Velleius.
For I seem often to have heard that friend of yours, Lucius Crassus, while he set you without doubt above all our toga-wearing countrymen and matched few of the Greek Epicureans with you — but, since I knew that he held you in wonderful affection, I supposed that out of goodwill he spoke too generously.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman orator invoked as an unavailable defender in the underworld.
Before them neither Lucius Crassus will defend you nor Marcus Antonius, nor — since the case will be tried before Greek judges — will you be able to call in Demosthenes;
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman orator whose speech in the centumviral Curius case is recalled by Cicero.
Curio dictionem quam castellanos triumphos duos, Brutus 73, ‘I would rather have made the single speech of Lucius Crassus for Manius Curius than have had two triumphs for the capture of fortresses.