Longinus

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Longinus may refer to:

• Cassius, who helped assassinate Julius Caesar
• Longinus, in Christian mythology is the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus on the cross.
• Casca Longinus, a fictional character based on the above.
• Longinus (literature), a Greek literary critic who may have lived in the 1st century, wrote a treatise On the Sublime.
• Gaius Cassius Longinus, a 1st century jurist
• Longinus a possible Roman governor of Britain c. 159
• Cassius Dionysius Longinus was an ethnic Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic who became chief counsellor in state affairs to Zenobia, queen of Palmyra.
• Longinus of Cardala, brother of the Byzantine Emperor Zeno; revolted against his successor, Anastasius I, but failed.
• Bishop Longinus was a missionary working among the Nabataeans during Emperor Justinian I's reign.
• Johannes Longinus, Latin name of Jan Długosz, a medieval Polish historian.
• Longinus, a 2004 film