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Full name Rossi I 32, Chron. 354.

CONSVL posterioriRole name: CONSVL posterior a. 291 with C. Iunius Tiberianus5: Fasti, Rossi I 17-18, 32, Ρ. Oxy. 1205.

PROCONSVL AFRICAEiRole name: PROCONSVL AFRICAE 295 March 12 Acta Maximiliani (= Ruin.² p. 340) at Theveste. Perhaps the office ran from 294 July 1 to 295 July 1.

PVRiRole name: PVR 296 Feb. 18-297 Chron. 354.

Named sixth on a list of senatorsiRole name: senators who each contributed 400,000 sesterces, probably towards the cost of a building VI 37118; the others named, in order of appearance, are: Gordianus 1, Iulius Festus 9, Annius Anullinus 3, Latinius Primosus, Nummius Tuscus 1, Caecina Sabinus 12, Caecina Tacitus 1, Acilius Glabrio 1, Acilius Faustinus 5, Iunius Tiberianus 7, Virius Nepotianus 6, and Nummius Albinus 7. He owned a house on the Palatine, the Domus Dionis Not. Vrbis Romae. He was probably grandson or great-grandson of the historian M. Cassius Dion Cocceianus who died c. 230; he therefore came from a family which was originally native to Nicaea in Bithynia and whose first representative in the senate was adlected under Trajan or Hadrian, probably Cassius [Agri]ppae f. [Agrippa?] AE 1950, 251, consul in 130 VI 2083. His earliest known ancestor was probably Cassius Asclepiodotus, exiled under Nero, PIR² C 486; citizenship probably originated from Cassius, the murderer of Caesar. PIR² C 491, cf. 492.