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Crassus (LUCIUS LICINIUS Roman orator B)

LUCIUS LICINIUS, Roman orator, 140 B. C., who is introduced by Cicero, in the treatise "De Oratore," as the representative of that writer's own opinions on the subject of oratory. He was unfortunate as a legislator, inasmuch as the law proposed by him, to compel all who were not citizens to depart from Rome, was a main cause of the Social War. He was distinguished for his love of the arts; and his mansion upon the Palatine is cited as having been one of the most noteworthy in ancient Rome. He died 91 в. C.