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15. P. Licinius Crassus Dives,
died B. c. 87.
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16. Licinius Crassus
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17. M. Licinius Crassus, triumvir,
married Tertulla.

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19. M. Licinius Crassus Dives, 20. P. Licik
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21. M. Licinius Crassuas Dives, Cos. B. c. 30.
22. M. Licinius Crassus Dives, Cos. B c. c14.
(C.)
23. L. Licinius Crassus, orator; Cos. B. c. 95; married Mucia.

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24. Licinia, married
Scipio Nasica.

25. Licinia, married 26. L. Licinius Crassus Scipio, son of
C. Marius. No. 24, and adopted by No. 23.
(D.) Other Licinii Crassi of uncertain pedigree.

27. Licinius Crassus Dives, Pr. B. c. 59.
29. P. Licinius Crassus Junianus, Tr. P1.
B. c. 53.

1. P. LICINIUS C. F. P. N. CRASSUS, was
grandson of P. Licinius Varus, who was praetor
B. c. 208. In B. c. 176 he was praetor, and pleaded that he was bound to perform a solemn sacrifice
as an excuse for not proceeding to his province,
Hither Spain. In B. c. 171 he was consul, and
appointed to the command against Perseus. He
advanced through Epeirus to Thessaly, and was
defeated by the king in an engagement of cavalry.
(Liv. xli., xlii., xliii.) During his command, he
oppressed the Athenians by excessive requisitions
of corn to supply his troops, and was accused on
this account to the senate.
2. C. LICINIUS C. F. P. N. CRAssUS, brother of
No. 1, was praetor in B. c. 172, and in B. c. 171
served as legatus with his brother in Greece, and
commanded the right wing in the unsuccessful
battle against Perseus. In B. c. 168 he was consul, and in the following year went to Macedonia,
instead of proceeding to Cisalpine Gaul, which was
his appointed province. (Liv. xlv. 17.)
3. C. LICINIUS CRASSUS, probably a son of No.
2, was tribune of the plebs B. c. 145, and according to Cicero (de Amic. 25) and Varro (de Re
Rust. i. 2), was the first who in his orations to the
people turned towards the forum, instead of turning towards the comitium and the curia. Plutarch
(C. Gracch. 5) attributes the introduction of this
mark of independence to C. Gracchus. He introduced a rogation in order to prevent the colleges of
priests from filling up vacancies by co-optation,
and to transfer the election to the people; but the
measure was defeated in consequence of the speech
of the then praetor, C. Laelius Sapiens. (Cic. Brut.
21.) (Huschke, Ueber die Stelle des Varro von
den Liciniern, Heidelb. 1837.)
4. C. LIcINIus (CRAssus), probably a son of
No. 3. (Dion Cass. Frag. xcii.)
5. LICINIA. [LICINIA.]
6. P. LICINIUS P. F. P. N. CRAssus, DIVES,
was the son of P. Licinius Varus, and was the first
Licinius with the surname Dives mentioned in
history. In B. c. 212, though a young man who
had never sat in the curule chair, he defeated two
distinguished and aged consulars, Q. Fulvius Flac

28. P. Licinius Crassus, Pr. B. c. 57.
30. M. Licinius Crassus Mucianus, a contemporary of Vespasian.
cus and T. Manlius Torquatus, in a hard-fought
contest for the office of pontifex maximus. (Liv.
xxv. 5.) In B. c. 211 he was curule aedile, and
gave splendid games, remarkable for the crowns
with foliage of gold and silver, that were then first
exhibited at Rome (Plin. H. N. xxi. 4); in B. c.
210 he was magister equitum of the dictator Q.
Fulvius Flaccus, and in the same year obtained
the censorship, but abdicated (as was usual) in consequence of the death of his colleague. In B. c.
208 he was praetor. In B. c. 205 he was consul
with Scipio Africanus, and undertook the task of
keeping Hannibal in check in the country of the
Bruttii. Here he succeeded in rescuing some
towns from the enemy, but was able to do little
in consequence of a contagious disease which
attacked him and his army. (Liv. xxix. 10.)
In the following year he united his forces with
those of the consul Sempronius, to oppose Hannibal in the neighbourhood of Croton, but the Romans were defeated. In a. c. 203, he returned
to Rome, and died at an advanced age, B. c. 183,
when his funeral was celebrated with games and
feasts which lasted for three days, and by a
fight of 120 gladiators. (xxxix.46.) He possessed
many gifts of nature and fortune, and added to
them by his own industry. He was noble and
rich, of commanding form and great corporeal
strength, and, in addition to his military accomplishments, was extremely eloquent, whether in
addressing the senate or haranguing the people. In
civil and pontifical law he was deeply skilled.
(xxx. 1.) Valerius Maximus (i. 1. ~ 6) gives an
example of his religious severity in condemning a
Vestal virgin to be burnt, because one night she
neglected her charge of guarding the everlasting fire.
7. P. LICINIUS CRASSUS DIvES, son of No. 6.
8. P. LICINIUS CRASSUS DIVES MUCIANUS, was
the adopted son of No. 7. (Cic. Brut. 26.) His
natural father was P. Mucius Scaevola, who was
consul B. c. 175. In the year B. c. 131 he was
consul and pontifex maximus, and, according to
Livy, was the first priest of that rank who
went beyond Italy. (Epit. lix.) As pontifex
maximus, he forbade his colleague, Valerius Flac