Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla was a Roman consul

Roman consul

A consul served in the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic.Each year, two consuls were elected together, to serve for a one-year term. Each consul was given veto power over his colleague and the officials would alternate each month...

 in 127 BC.

As a tribune of Concilium Plebis in 137 BC

137 BC

Year 137 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Porcina and Mancinus...

 he put forward and passed the Lex Cassia Tabellaria (a measure to change the voting system to one of secret ballot). In 127 BC

127 BC

Year 127 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ravilla and Cinna...

 he was consul with Lucius Cornelius Cinna and in 125 BC

125 BC

Year 125 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hypsaeus and Flaccus...

 he was elected censor

Censor (ancient Rome)

The censor was an officer in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances....

. He was renowned for severity as a iudex and gained fame by formulating the question "Cui bono

Cui bono

Cui bono , also rendered as Cui prodest, is a Latin adage that is used either to suggest a hidden motive or to indicate that the party responsible for something may not be who it appears at first to be.Commonly the phrase is used to suggest that the person or people guilty of committing a...

?" ("Good for whom?", or "Who benefits?") as a principle of criminal investigation.

In 114 BC

114 BC

Year 114 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Cato...

 he was appointed special inquisitor to the case of three Vestal Virgin

Vestal Virgin

In ancient Roman religion, the Vestals or Vestal Virgins , were priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the hearth. The College of the Vestals and its well-being was regarded as fundamental to the continuance and security of Rome, as embodied by their cultivation of the sacred fire that could not be...

s accused of unchastity. He condemned and put to death two of them, who were acquitted by Pontifex Maximus

Pontifex Maximus

The Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome. This was the most important position in the ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post...

 L. Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus

Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus

Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus was a son of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus. He was a Consul in 119 BC, a Censor in 115 BC and then Pontifex Maximus. He had eliminated from the Senate 32 of its members and fought Saturninus, thus contributing to the return to Rome, in 99 BC, of his brother...

, as well as the men involved.