Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla was a Roman statesman who rose through tribune of the plebs in 137 BC, praetor before 130 BC, consul in 127 BC and censor in 125 BC, and who was renowned for his severity as a iudex. He formulated the investigative principle cui bono, meaning who benefits, a test for identifying likely culprits still invoked in legal and criminal reasoning, and he was called on as a special prosecutor in notable cases of his era.
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