Cassius, Caius, chief conspirator against Cæsar; won over Brutus to join in the foul plot; soon after the deed was done fled to Syria, made himself master of it; joined his forces with those of Brutus at Philippi; repulsed on the right, thought all was lost; withdrew into his tent, and called his freedmen to kill him; Brutus, in his lamentation over him, called him the “last of the Romans”; (d. 42 B.C.)
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cassiter`ides * Cassius, Spurius