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Definition of Cassius

1. Noun. Prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC).

Definition of Cassius

1. n. A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

Definition of Cassius

1. Proper noun. ( male given name). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cassius

Literary usage of Cassius

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"^cassius lets go all his pent-up anger with some of his emotion, but a good deal of his speech is what is sometimes called "bluff. ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The army of Brutus and cassius amounted to at least eighty thousand infantry, supported by twenty thousand horse ; but they were ill supplied with ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"THE CHAINS OF cassius AND AMANUS. they show the plains of the Sanpo or Upper ... To a traveller approaching Mount cassius from the plain of Lattakia, ..."

4. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero, Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Henry John Chaytor (1908)
"If Brutus and cassius had been deprived of their provinces, ... Moreover, if Caesar had intended Syria and Macedonia for cassius and Brutus, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"cassius punished the leaders with merciless severity, and made the lot of the provincials harder than ever. At last some of his troops revolted under the ..."

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