Crassus, Lucius Licinius, the greatest Roman orator of his day, became consul 55 B.C.; during his consulship a law was passed requiring all but citizens to leave Rome, an edict which provoked the Social War (140‒91 B.C.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Crashaw, Richard * Crassus, Marcus Licinius