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- ...P. Crassus.
- ...L. Valerius.
CAssiodorus putteth down for Consuls this yeere, Pub. Crassus and Lu. Valerius. Crassus and Flaccus the Sicilian catalogue. L. Valerius Flaccus and Pub. Licinius Crassus, according to Cicero in his eleventh Philippicke against An∣tonie. Of this Consull Pub. Licinius Crassus, all they have spoken, who wrote of the warre of Aristonicus. This P. Crassus surnamed Dives, by Cicero in his bookes of a perfect Ora∣tour, and in Brutus is called the brother of Sce∣vola: Whereupon Velleius in his second booke nameth him Mutianus, betokening thereby that hee was adopted out of the house of Mu∣tij into the familie of the Crassi. This man Gellius writeth in his first booke and three and twentieth chapter, to have beene of all others the richest man, the noblest personage, and the most eloquent Orator, the deepest lawyer, and the supreame bishop withall.