person
Lucius Licinius Crassus
Lucius Crassus
also: L. Crassus, Crassus
The leading orator of his day (140–91 BC) and a chief speaker in Cicero's De Oratore; as censor in 92 BC he moved to close the new Latin rhetors' schools. Not the triumvir Marcus Crassus.
Reading notes
- A Dialogue on Oratory §18 Crassus
L. Licinius Crassus (140–91 BC), the leading orator of his day and a speaker in Cicero's De Oratore; not the triumvir Marcus Crassus.