Cinna

Family: Roman · Role: consul · First appears: Caius Marius

Cinna was a Roman consul who first joyfully received Caius Marius’s offer, naming him proconsul and sending him the fasces and other ensigns of authority. He and Octavius became enemies when their factional opposition turned to fighting, and Octavius drove Cinna out of the city; Cinna then joined himself and his forces with Caius Marius. Quintus Sertorius joined Cinna’s party.

When Cinna and Caius Marius held power, they killed Marcus Crassus’s father and brother, while Marcus Crassus escaped to Spain. Lucius Terentius was Cinna’s companion and comrade, having been corrupted by him. Cinna was the father of Cornelia, Caesar’s wife, and was also described in connection with Caesar and Marcus Brutus, including as a friend of Caesar.

Relationship record

Life events

• Cinna and Marius killed Crassus’s father and brother, forcing him to flee to Spain.(Crassus · 📍 Spain)
  • With: Marcus Crassus Caius Marius
  • “And as many as they could lay their hands on they slew, amongst whom were Crassus's father and brother; he himself, being very young, for the moment escaped the danger; but understanding that he was every way beset and hunted after by the tyrants, taking with him three friends and ten servants, with all possible speed he fled into Spain”

Caius Marius

• with Caius Marius (interaction) “When Cinna had joyfully received his offer, naming him proconsul, and sending him the fasces and other ensigns of authority”
• enemies with Octavius “the consuls, from factious opposition, were fallen to downright fighting, wherein Octavius prevailing, drove Cinna out of the city”
• friends with Caius Marius “he determined to join himself and his forces with the latter.”
• with Caius Marius (interaction) “When Cinna had joyfully received his offer, naming him proconsul, and sending him the fasces and other ensigns of authority”

Crassus

• enemies with Marcus Crassus “And as many as they could lay their hands on they slew, amongst whom were Crassus's father and brother; he himself, being very young, for the moment escaped the danger; but understanding that he was every way beset and hunted after by the tyrants”

Sertorius

• with Quintus Sertorius (interaction) “Sertorius joined Cinna's party”

Pompey

• protégé: Lucius Terentius “one Lucius Terentius, as his companion and comrade, who, being corrupted by Cinna”

Caesar

• child: Cornelia “his wife Cornelia, daughter of Cinna, the late sole ruler of the commonwealth”
• friends with Caesar “One Cinna, a friend of Caesar's, chanced the night before to have an odd dream”

Marcus Brutus

• with Marcus Brutus (interaction) “one of Caesar's friends”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.