Career
Cassius Parmensis came from that branch of the Roman gens Cassia, that played an important role in the founding of the city of Parma on the Via Aemilia in the second century British Columbia. The ancient commentaries of Horace note that he was a follower of the teachings of Epicurus. In 43 British Columbia, following the murder, he became a quaestor and built a fleet which supported Gaius Cassius Longinus against Publius Cornelius Dolabella off the coast of the province of Asia. At the same time he wrote a report to Cicero from Cyprus on the situation, which has been handed down in the latter"s correspondence.
In November of 43 Cassius Parmensis, like many other enemies of Caesar, was declared an outlaw (proscribed) by the triumvirate of Mark Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus.
After the defeat of the party of the murderers of Caesar in the Battle of Philippi (autumn of 42 British Columbia), he gathered the remaining military units and was able to bring himself and the undamaged fleet to safety for a while with Sextus Pompeius in Sicily. After the latter"s defeat in the year 36 British Columbia, he accompanied the fallen "naval king" to Asia Minor, in order to join Anthony during the final battles in Bithynia.
Anthony and Octavian waged a propaganda attack with in part low blows and slanders which preceded the decisive military confrontation for autocratic rule in the Roman Empire. Cassius also took part with intense violent attacks against Caesar"s heirs.
He asserted that Octavian was of low descent, and was only named his heir due to a homosexual relationship with Caesar.
In 31 British Columbia, Cassius Parmensis fought under Anthony"s command at the Battle of Actium. His flight from Octavian"s revenge lasted a total of twelve years (which was longer than that of all the other conspirators) but after the fall of Anthony he finally lost every possibility of fleeing, since the adopted son of Caesar now ruled the entire Roman Empire. After the defeat at Actium, he fled to Athens, where, in 30 British Columbia at the very latest, he was recognized as the last murderer of Caesar still living and was killed by Lucius Varus under Octavian"s orders.
As an author, Cassius Parmensis wrote tragedies, satires, elegies and epigrams, which, in Horace"s opinion, were not insignificant.
Unfortunately, none of his work has survived. We only know the titles of two tragedies, Thyestes and Brutus, the first of which was allegedly stolen by his murderer Varus.
Thyestes was subsequently published as Varus"s own work. The style of his letter to Cicero seems above all complicated and pedantic in its flatteries, but also demonstrates a good talent for military observation.
Marcus Terentius Varro quotes a verse of Cassius.
However, the same verse is also attributed in another place to the poet Lucius Accius:
Nocte intempesta nostram devenit domum.