Crassus, Papirius
9. M. Papirius Crassus, apparently a brother of the preceding, was appointed dictator in B. C. 332 to conduct the war against the Gauls, who were then believed to be invading the Roman dominion; but the report proved to be unfounded. (Liv. 8.17.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.