CRASSUS

surname in Rom. plebeian gens Licinia. Important members are Publius, consul, 131 B.C., noted as scholar and orator; Lucius, also orator; Publius, consul, 97 B.C., author of Sumputary Law; Marcus is.best known as Dives (‘the rich’) because of his skill in acquiring wealth. In 60 B.C. he with Cesar and Pompey formed the ‘First Triumvirate’; he was killed in war with she Parthians (53 B.C.),