person
Lucius Cornelius Cinna
Cinna
also: Cinna
Consul 87-84 BC and leader of the Marian faction; his domination of Rome by violence and proscription (the 'Cinnae tempora') was Cicero's byword for the commonwealth held by base and ruined citizens. Killed in a mutiny in 84 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 8.3 §6 what L. Philippus did in the supremacy of Cinna
During Cinna's domination of Rome (87-84 BC), the consular L. Marcius Philippus survived by accommodation rather than resistance. Cicero weighs this quietist precedent as a model for staying in Italy under Caesar.
- Ad Atticum 8.9 §4 all this clemency is being heaped up toward the Cinnan kind of cruelty
L. Cornelius Cinna dominated Rome in the 80s BC and was remembered for the bloody Marian terror; Cicero fears Caesar's much-advertised clementia is only a prelude to violence on Cinna's model.
- Ad Familiares 1.9 §11 the days of Cinna
L. Cornelius Cinna's domination of Rome by violence and proscription (87-84 BC); Cicero's byword for the commonwealth held by 'base and ruined citizens', a state to which he says he would never have lent himself.
- Tusculan Disputations §5.55 four times like Cinna
Lucius Cornelius Cinna, leader of the Marian faction, held the consulship four years running (87-84 BC) and carried out murderous proscriptions. Cicero treats his repeated power as the mark of a wretched, not a happy, man.