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CASSIUS, See also:GAIUS , Latin poet, See also:general and politician, called Parmensis from his birthplace See also:Parma,was one of the murderers of See also:Julius See also:Caesar, and after his See also:death joined the party of See also:Brutus and his namesake Cassius the conspirator. In 43 B.C. he was in command of the See also:fleet on the See also:coast of See also:Asia, but after the See also:battle of See also:Philippi joined Sextus Pompeius in See also:Sicily. When Pompeius, having been defeated in a See also:naval engagement at Naulochus by the fleet of Octavian under See also:Agrippa, fled to Asia, Cassius went over to Antony, and took See also:part in the battle of See also:Actium (31). He afterwards fled to See also:Athens, where he was soon put to death by Octavian, whom he had offended by See also:writing an abusive See also:letter (Suetonius, See also:Augustus, 4). Cassius is credited with satires, elegies, epigrams and tragedies. Some hexameters with the See also:title Cassii See also:Orpheus are by See also:Antonius Thylesius,an See also:Italian of the 17th See also:century. See also:Horace appears to have thought well of Cassius as a poet, for he asks See also:Tibullus whether he intends to compete with the opuscula (probably the elegies) of Cassius (Epistles, i. 4. 3). The See also:story in the Horace scholia, that L. Varius See also:Rufus published his famous tragedy Thyestes from an MS. which he found amongst the papers of Cassius after his death, is due to a confusion of Cassius's murderer, Q. Attius Varus, with the tragedian (See also:Appian, B.C. v.

2, 139; See also:

Cicero, ad Pam. xii. 13; Vell. Pat. ii. 87; See also:Orosius, vi. 19; see also the diffuse See also:treatise of A. Weichert, De L. Varii et Cassii Parmensis Vita et Carminibus, 1836). Cassius Parmensis must not be confused with Cassius Etruscus (Horace, Satires, i. 1o. 6o), an improviser, who is said to have used enough See also:paper to furnish his funeral pyre.

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