Crastinus
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Crastini Proper-name noun: masculine vocative plural, Proper-name noun: masculine nominative plural, Proper-name noun: masculine genitive singular of Crastinus
Crastini Adjective: masculine genitive singular, Adjective: masculine vocative plural, Adjective: masculine nominative plural, Adjective: neuter genitive singular of crastinus
Crastini Noun: neuter genitive singular of crastinum
- a Roman surname, Caes. B. C. 3, 91; 3, 99; Luc. 7, 471; Flor. 4, 2, 46 al.
one of Caesar's veterans, who had been the primipilus in the tenth legion in the year before the battle of Pharsalus, and who served as a volunteer in the campaign against Pompey. It was he who commenced the battle of Pharsalus, B. C. 48, saying that, whether he survived or fell, Caesar should be indebted to him : he died fighting bravely in the foremost line. (Caes. Civ. 3.91, 92; Flor. 4.2.46; Lucan, 7.471, &c. ; Appian, App. BC 2.82; Plut. Pomp. 71, Caes. 44.)