See also: Publius Licinius Crassus

Publius Licinius Crassus Dives is the homonym of his/her grandfather, Publius Licinius Crassus Dives, which were consul in - 97, critic in -89, and who died into -87. Publius Crassus is the second wire of Marcus Licinius Crassus, the immensely rich Triumvir. The Agnomen “divine” (rich) implies that the family was, right now, easy.

Publius Crassus follows a traditional education of which he appreciates the courses of rhetoric. He admires Cicéron deeply and leads his father, who however hated it, to approach the consul in full plot of Catalina (63-62 av. J.C.).

Undoubtedly Questeur in 59, Publius appears in the “Guerre of Gaules” under the formula “Publius Crassus”. It is, when the operations begin front in March 58 J.C., one of the Légats which assist César. At the time of the battle which opposes the Romans to German Arioviste, in the plain of Alsace, perhaps close to Cernay, it orders the cavalry and takes the initiative to send the third line of the legions in support of the left wing which loses foot. This initiative ensures the victory over Arioviste.

The following year (57 av. J.C.), Publius Crassus is sent with the 7th legion in Armorique, the Western part of Gaulle between the Seine and the Loire. The coastal people make him tender and it benefits from it to cross the English Channel, to put a foot in Brittany and to push to the islands Cassitérides, current the Scilly. In September - October 56, Crassus is in Aquitaine. It there reinforces its army, besieges the Sotiates in their capital and rendering obtains some. It demolishes then Vocates and Tarusates, supported by a quota Cantabre come from Spain, and thus ensures Rome the tender of Aquitaine.

In 55, Publius Licinius Crassus turns over to Italy to marry Cecilia Metella (or Cornelia Metella), the girl of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica.

At the end of 54, it definitively leaves Gaulle to join his Marcus father, to triumvir it, in Syria. Because Marcus wanted, while rubbing there with the Parthes, to gain the glory obtained by his/her colleagues triumvirs, César and Pompée. Crassus cross the Euphrate into 53 with 30.000 men and 1.000 riders Gallic and fall in July in the trap tended by Parthes. It is the Bataille of Carrhes (today Harran).

In the second phase of the combat of the first day, on July 9th, Publius Crassus is killed while trying to stop an attack against the back of the army. Its head is then planted on a spade and range under the glance of his/her father, who will follow his son in death two days later.

The widow of Publius will marry Pompée the following year, into 52.