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Crassus, despondent at the death of his son Publius in the battle, finally agreed to meet the Parthian general ; however, when Crassus mounted a horse to ride to the Parthian camp for a peace negotiation, his junior officer Octavius suspected a Parthian trap and grabbed Crassus ' horse by the bridle, instigating a sudden fight with the Parthians that left the Roman party dead, including Crassus.
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The man selected for the task was Marcus Licinius Crassus, grandson of Crassus the triumvir and an experienced general at 33 years of age, who was appointed proconsul of Macedonia in 29 BC.
Crassus marched to the Dentheletae's assistance, but the Bastarnae host hastily withdrew over the Haemus at his approach.
Pompey and Crassus had been at odds for a decade, so Caesar tried to reconcile them.
The alliance was re-stabilized at the Lucca Conference in 56 BC, after which Crassus and Pompey again served as Consul.
Crassus ' campaign was a disastrous failure, resulting in his defeat and death at the Battle of Carrhae.
Now Licinia was the owner of a pleasant villa in the suburbs which Crassus wished to get at a low price, and it was for this reason that he was forever hovering about the woman and paying his court to her, until he fell under the abominable suspicion.
Crassus offered to equip, train, and lead new troops, at his own expense, after several legions had been defeated and their commanders killed in battle or taken prisoner.
In 55 BC, after the Triumvirate met at the Lucca Conference, he was again consul with Pompey, and a law was passed assigning the provinces of the two Hispanias and Syria to Pompey and Crassus respectively for five years.
Crassus ' legions were mainly infantry men and were not prepared for the type of swift, cavalry-and-arrow attack that the Parthian troops were particularly adept at ; the same type of attack that Genghis Khan later utilised to great effect.
Now Licinia was the owner of a pleasant villa in the suburbs which Crassus wished to get at a low price, and it was for this reason that he was forever hovering about the woman and paying his court to her, until he fell under the abominable suspicion.
The main reason that Crassus ' victory was downplayed ( he was granted a Roman Triumph upon his return to Italy ) has a lot to do with the charged political atmosphere of Rome at the time.
The Romans fought a prolonged and indecisive campaign in the East against the Parthians beginning in 53 BC, commencing with the defeat of Marcus Licinius Crassus ( close benefactor of Julius Caesar ) and his 35, 000 legionaries at Carrhae.
Quintus Fulvius Flaccus was one of the three candidates for the position of Pontifex Maximus circa 212 BC, when he and another senior candidate Titus Manlius Torquatus, both former censors, were pipped at the post by a younger man, Publius Licinius Crassus who was not yet a curule aedile and thus probably aged in his middle thirties.
* Sulpicia Praetextata, the wife of Crassus, is mentioned at the commencement of the reign of Vespasian, in AD 70.
Of Sulpicius as an orator, Cicero says ( Brutus, 55 ): " He was by far the most dignified of all the orators I have heard, and, so to speak, the most tragic ; his voice was loud, but at the same time sweet and clear ; his gestures were full of grace ; his language was rapid and voluble, but not redundant or diffuse ; he tried to imitate Crassus, but lacked his charm.
The triumvirate of Caesar, Pompey and Crassus was broken in 54 BC at the same time as Cato's election as praetor.
The speeches in defense began with Caelius making witty jeers at Clodia, while Crassus defended against the actual charges, and finally Cicero attacking Clodia.
* Marcus Licinius M. f. P. n. Crassus Dives, elder son of the triumvir, he was Caesar's quaestor in Gaul, and praefectus of Gallia Cisalpina at the beginning of the Civil War in 49 BC.
Meanwhile the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus had begun his attempt to conquer the east, but he was defeated and killed in 53 BC at the Battle of Carrhae by Surena, while Orodes himself invaded Armenia and forced King Artavasdes, the son of Tigranes the Great, to abandon the Romans.
After the death of Crassus the Bacchae of Euripides was presented at Artavasdes ' court, with the head of Crassus himself allegedly being used as an accessory for a scene actually including a severed head, on the order of the king.
Crassus and death
These achievements granted him unmatched military power and threatened to eclipse the standing of Pompey, who had realigned himself with the Senate after the death of Crassus in 53 BC.
Crassus ' death permanently unraveled the alliance between Caesar and Pompey.
Within four years of Crassus ' death, Caesar would cross the Rubicon and begin a civil war against Pompey and the legitimate government of the Republic.
After Cinna's death in 84 BC, Crassus went to the Roman province of Africa where adherents of Sulla were gathering.
This coalition would last until Crassus ' own death.
A story later emerged that, after Crassus ' death, the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for wealth.
The book depicts an overconfident and militarily incompetent Crassus up to the moment of his death.
It was formed in 60 BC and lasted until Crassus ' death in 53 BC.
Crassus ' death in 53 and the absence of Caesar in Gaul left Pompey as the only effective power in the state.
After the death of Crassus in 53 BC, the two survivors fought a civil war, during which Pompey was killed and Caesar established his sole rule as perpetual dictator.
n. Crassus, consul in 451 BC, he became head of the college of decemvirs, holding office until 449, when he was imprisoned for his actions as decemvir, and either killed himself or was put to death.
Both Pompey and Crassus had, however, fought on the side of Sulla during the civil war, and after the death of Crassus, Pompey eventually reverted to his position as a conservative optimas.
Publius Crassus joined him in Syria during the winter of 54 – 53 BC, bringing with him the thousand Celtic cavalry troopers from Gaul who remained loyal to their young leader until death.
During Mark Antony's expedition ( 36 BC ) to Armenia and Parthia, to avenge Crassus ' death ( 17 years earlier ) he was proconsul of Syria.
Crassus Mucianus met with defeat against Aristonicus, and while retreating, he was overtaken by the enemy and stabbed to death ; according to one source, he deliberately refused to reveal his identity to avoid the humiliation of being captured alive.
He later became Pontifex Maximus in 131 BC after the death of his brother, Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus.
Crassus and son
This grandfather was son of P. Licinius Crassus ( consul 171 BC ).
In 65 BC, Crassus was elected censor with another conservative Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( Capitolinus ), himself son of a consul.
The account given in Plutarch's biography of Crassus also mentions that, during the feasting and revelry in the wedding ceremony of Artavazd's sister to the Parthian king Orodes II's son and heir Pacorus in Artashat, Crassus ' head was brought to Orodes II.
The novel follows two fictional Gallic nobles who join Julius Caesar's cavalry then find their way into the service of Marcus ' son, Publius Licinius Crassus, in Gaul.
He was dictator himself and the son of Gaius Claudius Crassus, dictator in 337 BC.
n. Crassus, the younger son of the decemvir.
f. C. n. Crassus Rufus, the eldest son of Appius Claudius Caecus, he was consul in 268 BC, and the last of the Claudii known to have borne the surname Crassus.
Cornelia was first married to Publius Licinius Crassus, son of Marcus Licinius Crassus, in 55 or 54 BC, when he returned to Rome after serving under Julius Caesar in Gaul.
* Meto, his second adopted son, was a slave of Crassus who became a soldier serving under Julius Caesar.
* Gaius Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus Dives, son of the consul of 205 BC.
* Gaius Licinius ( C. f. C. n .) Crassus, probably son of the tribune of 145 BC.
He was the son of Publius Mucius Scaevola, the consul of 175 BC, but was adopted by Publius Licinius Crassus, consul of 171.
* Licinia P. f. P. n., daughter of Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianus, married Gaius Sulpicius Galba, son of the orator Servius Sulpicius Galba.
* Lucius Licinius Crassus Scipio, grandson of the consul of 95 BC, was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica and Licinia, and was adopted by his grandfather, who had no sons of his own.
* Publius Licinius M. f. P. n. Crassus Dives, younger son of the triumvir, he was Caesar's legate in Gaul from 58 to 55 BC.
* Marcus Licinius M. f. Crassus, son Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, he was slain by the emperor Nero.
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