Longīnus Dionysius Cassius

, a celebrated Greek philosopher and critic of Athens. He was preceptor of the Greek language, and afterwards minister, to Zenobia the famous queen of Palmyra, and his ardent zeal and spirited activity in her cause proved at last fatal to him. When the emperor Aurelian entered victorious the gates of Palmyra, Long in us was sacrificed to the fury of the Roman soldiers, A.D. 273. At the moment of death he showed himself great and resolute, and with a philosophical and unparalleled firmne of mind, he even repre ed the tears and sighs of the spectators who pitied his miserable end. Long in us has rendered his name immortal by his critical remarks on ancient authors. His treatise on the sublime gives the world reason to lament the lo of his other valuable compositions. The best editions of this author are that of Tollius, 4to, Traja. ad Rhen. 1694, and that of Toup, 8vo, Oxford, 1778.――Ca ius, a tribune driven out of the senate for favouring the interest of Julius Cæsar. He was made governor of Spain by Cæsar, . ――A governor of Judæa.――A proconsul.――A lawyer whom, though blind and respected, Nero ordered to be put to death, because he had in his po e ion a picture of Ca ius, one of Cæsar’s murderers. Juvenal , satire 10, li. 6 .