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Marcus Licinius Crassus was the second of three sons born to the eminent senator and vir triumphalis P. Licinius Crassus ( consul 97, censor 89 BC ).

This line was not descended from the Crassi Divites, although often assumed to be ..

The eldest brother Publius ( born c. 116 BC ) died shortly before the Italic War and Marcus took the brother's wife as his own.

His father and the youngest brother Gaius took their own lives in Rome in winter 87-6 BC to avoid capture when he was being hunted down by the Marians following their victory in the bellum Octavianum.