Cinna
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Cinna was a Roman patrician family of the gens Cornelia.
The most prominent member was Lucius Cornelius Cinna. His daughter Cornelia was the wife of Julius Caesar, the dictator; but his son, Lucius Cornelius Cinna, praetor until 44 BC, nevertheless sided with the murderers of Caesar and publicly extolled their action.
The hero of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Cinna (1640) was Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna, surnamed Magnus (after his maternal grandfather Pompey), who was magnanimously pardoned by Augustus after conspiring against him.
[edit] External links
- Cinna de Corneille : Plot overview (in French)
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
