Lucius Licinius Crassus

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Lucius Licinius Crassus Orator (140 BC-91 BC) was a Roman consul. He was the greatest Roman orator of his day.

He became consul in 95 BC. During his consulship a law was passed (the lex Licinia Mucia) requiring all but citizens to leave Rome, an edict which provoked the Social War.

Licinius Crassus was married to Mucia, younger daughter of the consul Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur by his wife Laelia, daughter of Gaius Laelius Sapiens. They had two surviving daughters:

• Licinia Crassa Prima or Major married to the praetor Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, a rather unpleasant descendant of Scipio Africanus and Scipio Nasica, and by whom she had issue
• Licinia Crassa Secunda or Minor married to the consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, eventually Pontifex Maximus and close friend and ally of the dictator Sulla. Their adoptive son was Metellus Scipio, son of her elder sister.

One of the Licinias was briefly married to Gaius Marius the Younger. Crassus's wife and daughters were renowned for their pure Latin.

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