page_title: Licinia gens
section_title: Licinii Crassi
hierarchical_section_title: Licinia gens / Members / Licinii Crassi
caption_attribution_description: English: The Pompeians. Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and P. Licinius Crassus Junianus. 47- Spring 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.84 g, 9h). Utica mint. Genius of Africa (Sekhmet) standing facing, holding ankh in right hand; GT A flanking head; SCIPIO • IMP up left, Q • METEL • PIVS down right / Victory standing left, holding winged caduceus in right hand, small round shield in left; [LE]G PRO PR up left, P • CRASSVS • IV[N] down right. Crawford 460/4; CRI 43; Sydenham 1050; Kestner 3585; BMCRR Africa 8; Caecilia 51. Good VF, darkly toned, banker’s mark on reverse. Rare. From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 824 (where it realized CHF 5000).
context_page_description: The gens Licinia was a celebrated plebeian family at Rome, which appears from the earliest days of the Republic until imperial times, and which eventually obtained the imperial dignity. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Licinius Calvus Stolo, who, as tribune of the plebs from 376 to 367 BC, prevented the election of any of the annual magistrates, until the patricians acquiesced to the passage of the lex Licinia Sextia, or Licinian Rogations. This law, named for Licinius and his colleague, Lucius Sextius, opened the consulship for the first time to the plebeians. Licinius himself was subsequently elected consul in 364 and 361 BC, and from this time, the Licinii became one of the most illustrious gentes in the Republic.
context_section_description: Publius Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus Dives, censor in 208 BC and consul in 205, during the Second Punic War.
  Gaius Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus Dives, son of the consul of 205 BC.
  Publius Licinius C. f. P. n. Crassus, consul in 171 BC, defeated by Perseus of Macedon.
  Gaius Licinius C. f. P. n. Crassus, as praetor urbanus in 172 BC, was involved in the trial of Marcus Popillius Laenas.  Consul in 168, he was assigned the province of Gallia Cisalpina, but brought his army to Macedonia instead.
  Gaius Licinius (C. f. C. n.) Crassus, tribunus plebis in 145 BC, proposed a bill to fill vacant priesthoods by popular election; it was defeated following a speech by the praetor, Gaius Laelius Sapiens.
  Gaius Licinius (C. f. C. n.) Crassus, probably son of the tribune of 145 BC.
  Licinia C. f. C. n., a Vestal Virgin in 123 BC.
  Publius Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus Dives Mucianus, consul in 131 BC. He was the son of Publius Mucius Scaevola, the consul of 175 BC, but was adopted by his uncle, Publius Licinius Crassus, consul in 171.
  Marcus Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus Agelastus, grandfather of the triumvir, he was said to have obtained his surname because he never laughed.
  Licinia P. f. P. n., sister of Marcus Licinius Crassus Agelastus.
  Licinia P. f. P. n., daughter of Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianus, married Gaius Sulpicius Galba, son of the orator Servius Sulpicius Galba.
  Licinia P. f. P. n., daughter of Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianus, married Gaius Gracchus, the tribune.
  Publius Licinius M. f. P. n. Crassus, father of the triumvir, was consul in 97 BC, and triumphed over the Lusitani.
  Lucius Licinius L. f. Crassus, the greatest orator of his day, was consul in 95 BC, and censor in 92.
  Licinia L. f. L. n., daughter of the consul of 95 BC, married Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, praetor in 94 BC.
  Licinia L. f. L. n., daughter of the consul of 95 BC, married the younger Gaius Marius, consul in 82 BC.
  Lucius Licinius Crassus Scipio, grandson of the consul of 95 BC, was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica and Licinia, and was adopted by his grandfather, who had no sons of his own. His brother was Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio.
  Publius Licinius P. f. M. n. Crassus, brother of the triumvir, he died shortly before or during the Social War (91–88 BC).
  Lucius (?) Licinius P. f. M. n. Crassus, a brother of the triumvir who died in the massacre of 87 BC. 
  Marcus Licinius P. f. M. n. Crassus, the triumvir, was consul in 70 and 55 BC, and censor in 65.
  Publius Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus, a nephew of the triumvir, squandered his fortune.
  Licinius Crassus Dives, praetor in 59 BC, was perhaps the same as Publius Licinius Crassus, nephew of the triumvir.
  Publius Licinius Crassus Dives, praetor in 57 BC, favored Cicero's return from exile.
  Publius Licinius P. f. Crassus Junianus Damasippus, tribune of the plebs in 53 BC, and a friend of Cicero. During the Civil War he was a partisan of Pompeius, and fought under Metellus Scipio in Africa. While escaping after the Battle of Thapsus, his ship was sunk by Caesar's fleet, and he drowned alongside Scipio and others.
  Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus Damasippus, a contemporary of Cicero, who wrote of his intention to purchase a garden from him in 45 BC. He was a dealer in statuary, and went bankrupt, but was prevented from doing away with himself by the Stoic Stertinius.  He was undoubtedly a son of the tribune in 53 BC.
  Lucius Licinius (P. f. P. n.) Crassus Damasippus, mentioned in a late Republican inscription from Rome, was probably either the statuary, or his brother, since the elder Damasippus had at least two children, who were pardoned by Caesar after their father's death, and allowed to inherit his property.
  Marcus Licinius M. f. P. n. Crassus, elder son of the triumvir, was Caesar's quaestor in Gaul, and prefect of Gallia Cisalpina at the beginning of the Civil War in 49 BC.
  Publius Licinius M. f. P. n. Crassus, younger son of the triumvir, he was Caesar's legate in Gaul from 58 to 55 BC. He accompanied his father to Syria, and died at the Battle of Carrhae in 53.
  Marcus Licinius M. f.
caption: Denarius minted in 47–46 BC at Utica. The reverse alludes to the propraetorian imperium of P. Crassus Junianus (P CRASSVS IV[N]).
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