Crassus, Lucius Licinius, the famous orator, [ii, 63]; [iii, 67]; at 21 (119) he won renown by his prosecution of Carbo, the one-time friend of the Gracchi, [ii, 47], [49]; his aedileship most splendid, [ii, 57]; as consul (95), he secured the expulsion from Rome of all who were not citizens, [iii, 47]; this was a cause of the Social War. He was the greatest orator of Rome before Cicero, fluent, graceful, witty, [i, 108], [133]; Cicero's mouthpiece in the de Oratore.
Crassus; Marcus Licinius Crassus Dives, the triumvir; his wealth and ambition, [i, 25]; sided with Sulla against Marius and grew enormously rich by the proscriptions; his avarice did not shrink from any meanness or even crime, [i, 109]; [iii, 73-75]. He defeated Spartacus (71); slain in Parthia (53).
Crassus; Publius Licinius Crassus Dives, [ii, 57]; father of the triumvir, consul (97); ended his own life to escape the prescriptions of Marius (87); Cicero bought his house.
Cratippus, of Mitylene, an eminent Peripatetic, came to Athens (about 50) to lecture; foremost of contemporary philosophers and teacher of young Cicero, [ii, 1], [2]; [ii, 8]; [iii, 5], [6], [33], [121].
Cunning, not wisdom, [ii, 10]; [iii, 72], [96].
Curio, Gaius Scribonius, [ii, 59]; orator and statesman, [iii, 88]; consul, (76).
Cynics, a school of philosophy so called from the Athenian gymnasium, Cynosarges, where they met, later adapted to their snarling manner and dirty habits; its leaders were Antisthenes of Athens, a disciple of Socrates, and Diogenes of Sinope; they taught the virtue of poverty and want, indifference to all convention and decency; Cicero's contempt for them and their so-called philosophy, [i, 128], [148].
Cyrenaics, the philosophic sect founded by Aristippus ([q.v.]), [iii, 116].
Cyrsilus, a Medizing Athenian, [iii, 48].
Cyrus, the Great, founder of the Persian Empire; wonderfully gifted in winning the co-operation of men and nations, [ii, 16].