Crassus, Marcus Licinius, the triumvir with Pompey and Cæsar; was avaricious, and amassed great wealth; appointed to the province of Syria, provoked out of cupidity war with the Parthians, in which he was treacherously slain; Orodes, the king, cut off his head, and poured melted gold into his mouth, saying as he did so, “Now sate thyself with the metal of which thou wert so greedy when alive” (115‒53 B.C.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Crassus, Lucius Licinius * Crates