ЛИК РИМСКОГ ПРАВНИКА ГАЈА КАСИЈА ЛОНГИНА
FIGURE OF THE ROMAN IURIST GAIUS CASSIUS LONGINUS

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a tribute to Professor Romac and the title refers to his article „Characters of Roman Lawyers in Tacitus’s Works” published in 1977 in the “Yearbook” of the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka. It is one of a series of articles in which Professor Romac uses primarily non-legal sources, especially the works of famous Roman writers, satirists and historiographers (Juvenal, Ovid, Tacitus and others), in order to show us in a vivid and layered way the Roman society in the period of the Principate, with all its turbulent political, social and other problems. Roman jurists found their place in that broad picture of personalities and events. Among them, Atheus Capito, Antistius Labeo, Nerva Pater, Pegasus, but also Gaius Cassius Longinus received a particularly true psychological portrait. Professor Romac uses data from the work of Tacitus, combining it with other sources. In the case of the lawyer Gaius Cassius Longinus, Tacitus provided, “not only a subtle psychological characterization, but also left so much information, that they could serve well as material for a romantic biography or even for a tense action or psychological film” says professor Romac. The last part of the article is about the so-called societas leonina, and its connection with Gaius Cassius Longinus.

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