Lucius Cornelius Cinna (suffect consul 32 BC)

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Lucius Cornelius Cinna was a Roman politician and senator in the time of Caesar and Augustus .

44 BC Cinna was quaestor at the suffect consul of the year Publius Cornelius Dolabella in the province of Asia ; However, he had to leave the Caesar murderer Marcus Junius Brutus to the cavalry troops that he was supposed to bring to Dolabella from Europe . Cinna is again in the year 32 BC. Mentioned when he was suffect consul. He was also a member of the college of the Arval Brothers . Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus , consul of the year 5, was his son, according to another opinion his younger brother. It is unclear whether he was the son of Pompeia , a daughter of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus , or married to her himself.

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Individual evidence

  1. Plutarch , Brutus 25 ; Cicero , Philippicae 10, 13 and 11, 27 .
  2. ^ John Scheid: Romulus et ses frères. Le collège des frères arvales, modèle du culte public dans la Rome des empereurs . École Française de Rome, Rome 1990, ISBN 2-7283-0203-0