Cinna
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Lucius Cornelius Cinna · most cruel of all
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman politician and general (Cinna) responsible for the killing of many prominent Romans, who nonetheless lived long and died peacefully.
why did Cinna, most cruel of all, reign so long?
why before that too were so many leading men of the state slain by Cinna;
Tusculan Disputations
Roman consul four times, ordered the execution of political rivals during civil strife
Do you think the one consulship of Gaius Laelius was like that — and that too with a repulse (if, when a wise and good man, such as he was, is passed over by the votes, it is the people rather than he that bears the repulse) — but yet, which would you rather, if it were in your power, to be once consul, like Laelius, or four times, like Cinna?
but Cinna ordered the head of his colleague the consul Gnaeus Octavius to be cut off, and of Publius Crassus, Lucius Caesar, most noble men, whose virtue had been known at home and in war, of Marcus Antonius, the most eloquent of all whom I have heard, of Gaius Caesar, in whom there seems to me to have been a pattern of humanity, of wit, of charm, of grace.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman political figure of the Marian/Sullan era.
Cicero in the fifth of his Tusculan questions, speaking of Cinna, beautifully and justly points out this abuse of the word, lawful.
On Benefits
Roman figure restored to the consulship, cited as example of ancestral favor
2 What lately brought back Cinna to the consulship from the camp of the enemy, what Sextus Pompeius and the other Pompeii, but the greatness of one man, once so great that it raised high enough all his own even by his ruin?