Spurius Cassius Vecellinus

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Spurius Cassius Vecellinus or Viscellinus , Consul plebeian at the beginning of the Roman Republic, in 502, 493 and 486 av. J. - C., and carried out the following year for adfectatores regni (attempt to become king).

In 502 av. J. - C., with his/her colleague Opiter Verginius, it massacres the Aurunces, osque people to which two Latin colonies joined.

Without being certain of its sources, Tite-Live indicates that the following year Spurius Cassius would have been associated like Maître of cavalry with the first dictator of the Republic, Titus Larcius Flavus.

Spurius Cassius is Consul for the second time in 493 av. J. - C., year which sees the outcome of the social serious attack marked by the First secession of the plebs, and the election of the first powerful orators of the plebs. Cassius ratifies peace with the Latin and the creation of the Latin Ligue ( Fœdus cassianum ).

Elected official for the third time in 486 av. J. - C., it must decide the distribution of the territory annexed after the victory over the Herniques. It is in favor of an equitable distribution between the Latin Plébéien S and allies rather than to put this territory in the public domain that some Patricien S occupy wrongly. His/her colleague the Consul Verginius opposes it, constant by a fraction of the Patricien S, and part of the Roman people which want nothing to offer to the allies. Its project of agrarian Loi is not accepted, and itself is shown to want to create supports in the Plèbe and the allies to aspire to the royalty. As of its exit of load, he is condemned and put to death. Tite-Live gives two versions: public lawsuit for complicity with the enemy and judgment by the people, or lawsuit deprived under the terms of the capacity of the Lord's Prayer familias , execution by his/her father who devotes then the share of heritage which should have returned to him to the dedication of a statue to Cérès, protective goddess of the plebeian ones. For the Romans of the following generations, it leaves the memory be carried out to have planned to become king, following the example Spurius Maelius and Marcus Manlius Capitolinus.

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