Spurius Cassius Vecellinus

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §17 Spurius Cassius

  Consul, later Rome's first master of the horse and thrice consul, ultimately executed for aiming at kingship.

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §41 Spurius Cassius

  Thrice consul, author of the first agrarian law and the Latin treaty; condemned and executed for aiming at kingship.

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §15 Spurius Cassius

  Rome's first master of the horse and thrice consul, framer of the treaty with the Latins and an agrarian law; long afterward condemned and executed for aiming at kingship.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §17 Spurius Cassius

  Thrice consul, author of the first agrarian law, put to death (485 BC) on a charge of seeking kingship—a precedent invoked for Manlius.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §5 Gaius Cassius

  A Roman appointed to the board of ten land-commissioners.