Aulus Caecina (writer)

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Aulus Caecina was a Roman writer and orator of the late Republic.

His father of the same name, who came from Volaterrae , was born in 69 BC. Defended by Marcus Tullius Cicero in a still existing speech (per A. Caecina) . The son is mentioned in several letters from Cicero. He was an expert on the prophecy doctrine of the Etruscans ( Etrusca disciplina ) and told the exiled Cicero in 57 BC. Before the return to Rome. He was also gifted as a speaker.

In 49 BC When civil war broke out, Caecina sided with Pompeius . He published a sharp invective against Caesar , which is why he was banished and had to stay in Sicily. Cicero and other friends tried in 46/45 BC. To obtain a pardon from the dictator Caecinas after he had revoked his attack on Caesar in his work Querelae ; it is unclear whether the efforts were successful during Caesar's lifetime. Caecina is mentioned in a letter from Cicero of May 43 BC. Mentioned when he was in Rome.

Caecina tried to put the Etrusca Disciplina on a scientific basis by harmonizing it with the doctrines of the Stoics . Larger fragments of his work on lightning can be found in Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones .

Caecina was good friends with Cicero, who had known him from childhood, and the latter describes him as a gifted and eloquent man. Some parts of her correspondence, including a letter from Caecina, have come down to us in Cicero's letters. Caecina had a son who was with him as a young man (adulescens) at the time of his exile in Sicily before he went to Cicero's house in Rome, and at least one other child.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 6, 6, 2.
  2. ↑ Seneca , Naturales quaestiones 2, 56, 1.
  3. ^ Suetonius , Divus Iulius 75, 5.
  4. ↑ cf. Cicero, ad familiares 6, 6 (summer / autumn 46 BC); 6, 8, and 9 (early December 46 BC); 6, 7 (Caecina to Cicero, December 46 BC); 6, 5 (late December 46 BC).
  5. ^ Cicero, ad familiares 6, 6, 8.
  6. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 10, 25, 3.
  7. ↑ 2, 31-49.
  8. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 6, 9, 1.
  9. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 6, 6; 6, 8 (to Caecina); 6, 7 (Caecina to Cicero).
  10. ↑ Caecina in Cicero, ad familiares 6, 7, 5; Cicero, ad familiares 6, 5, 1.
  11. ^ Cicero, ad familiares 6, 5, 4.
personal data
SURNAME Caecina, Aulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman author and orator
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC BC or 1st century