Publius Crassus
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Roman statesman named as an initiator of the faction opposing Scipio.
and the detractors and enviers of Scipio, with a beginning made by Publius Crassus and Appius Claudius, hold no less, now that these men are dead, the other part of the senate that dissents from you, with Metellus and Publius Mucius as their authors;
Why, moreover, if a limit of money had to be set for women, might the daughter of Publius Crassus, if she were her father's only child, possess a hundred million in accordance with the law, while my own daughter might not possess three million .
Tusculan Disputations
Noble Roman killed on Cinna's orders
but Cinna ordered the head of his colleague the consul Gnaeus Octavius to be cut off, and of Publius Crassus, Lucius Caesar, most noble men, whose virtue had been known at home and in war, of Marcus Antonius, the most eloquent of all whom I have heard, of Gaius Caesar, in whom there seems to me to have been a pattern of humanity, of wit, of charm, of grace.
De Anima
Roman figure said to have died from laughter.
even though through laughter, as Publius Crassus — much more violent is the death which makes its way through good things, which expels the soul through favourable circumstances, which brings death then when it is more pleasant to live, in exultation, in honour, in repose, in pleasure.