Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1871 L. Cornelius (106) L. f. L. n. Cinna

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 84, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    Murdered in mutiny.

Relationships

son of
L. Cornelius (105) L. f. Cinna (cos. 127) (RE)
married to
Annia (101) (daughter of? T. Annius (78) T. f. T. n. Rufus (cos. 128)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Vell. II 41.2

father of
Cornelia (414) (daughter of L. Cornelius (106) L. f. L. n. Cinna (cos. 87)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Oros. V 24.16

L. Cornelius (107) Cinna (pr. 44) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Suet. Caes. 5.1

Cornelia (413) (daughter of L. Cornelius (106) L. f. L. n. Cinna (cos. 87)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Plut. Caes. 1.1, Suet. Caes. 6.1

Career

  • Praetor before 90 (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • 3 The latest date possible under the Leges Annales. He was already an ex-Praetor when he served as a Legate in the Social War (Cic; Liv.; see 88, Legates). De Sanotis has shown (RFil 62 [1934] 550f.) that Cinna was a patrician, since Caesar when named Flamen Dialis divorced his plebeian wife Cossutia and married Cinna's daughter because the Flaminica had to be a patrician. That Cinna's colleague in the consulship of 86, L. Valerius Flaccus, was also a patrician exemplifies the illegalities of a period when there was neither mos nor ius (of. Mommsen, RF 1. 114, for the opposing view). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 87-84. According to our sources, Cinna was planning to transport his army from Ancona to Liburnia (not Epirus, as in MRR 2.60) when he was killed early in 84 by his mutinous troops (see Badian, Studies 226-228). In the entries in MRR 2.55, 57, and 60, add the phrase Pr. by 90. On the college of two patrician consuls in 86, see MRR 2.30, note 3. T. J. Cadoux suggests that this case, in view of the absence of record of protest at Caesar and Lepidus in 46 (2.293) and at later examples such as Octavian and Messalla in 31 (2.420), indicates, not disregard of mos and ius, but repeal or obsolescence of the old law. (Broughton MRR III)
    • Cic. Font. 43; Liv. Per. 76. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 747, footnote 266 (Brennan 2000)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 90 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 15 See also Liv. Per. 76, and above, note 13. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Font. 43; see above, Praetors. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 89 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 20 In Liv. Per. 76 (ed. Rossbach, p. 84, line 19) Pinna, the reading of the manuscripts, is emended to Cinna by Jahn. See 90, note 13. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Font. 43; cf. Liv. Per. 76, probably a Legatus under Pompeius Strabo. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 88 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Font. 43; Liv. Per. 76. Presumably served under Pompeius Strabo. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Consul 87 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Har. Resp. 54; Tusc. 5.55; Phil. 13.2; 14.23; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f., and Fast. Cap., ibid. 54f., 129f., 482f.; Ascon. 23C; App. BC 1.65-66; Dio 30-35, fr. 102.3; Eutrop. 5.4; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Cinna, Cic. Phil. 11.1; Vell. 2.20.3; and on Octavius, Cic. Planc. 51. Cinna was elected in Sulla's presence and swore to maintain his measures (Plut. Sull. 10.3-4; Dio 30-35, fr. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Consul 86 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f., 130, 482f.; Liv. Per. 80, without a comitia; Vell. 2.23.1; App. BC 1.75; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Cinna, CIL 12.2.713, 891; Auct. Vir. Ill. 69.3; Oros. 5.19.23; Schol. Bob. 109 Stangl; and on Marius, Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f.; Elogium, Inscr. Ital. 13.3.83-CIL 12.1, p. 195; Val. Max. 8.15.7; 9.15.1; Plin. NH 11.252; Plut. Mar. 45.1; Flor. 2.9.17; Auct. Vir. Ill. 67.6. Cinna's rule was termed a tyranny (Cic. Phil. 1.34; 2.108; Brut. 227; ND 3.81; Sall. Hist. 1.64M; Val. Max. 6.9.6; Vell. 2.23.3; Plut. Caes. 1.1; Sull. 22.1; Tac. Ann. 1.1; Auct. Vir. Ill. 67.6). Marius died on January 13 (Cic. ND 3.81; Rosc. Amer. 33; Liv. Per. 80, with the date; Vell. 2.23.1; Plut. Mar. 45.2-46.5; App. BC 1.75; Flor. 2.9.17; Oros. 5.19.93). See 88, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 87-84. According to our sources, Cinna was planning to transport his army from Ancona to Liburnia (not Epirus, as in MRR 2.60) when he was killed early in 84 by his mutinous troops (see Badian, Studies 226-228). In the entries in MRR 2.55, 57, and 60, add the phrase Pr. by 90. On the college of two patrician consuls in 86, see MRR 2.30, note 3. T. J. Cadoux suggests that this case, in view of the absence of record of protest at Caesar and Lepidus in 46 (2.293) and at later examples such as Octavian and Messalla in 31 (2.420), indicates, not disregard of mos and ius, but repeal or obsolescence of the old law. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Consul 85 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • CIL 12 .2.892; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f., 130, 482f.; App. BC 1.75; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Carbo, Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f. In this year the Consuls began some preparations against Sulla's prospective retuin from the East (Liv. Per. 83; App. BC 1.76-77; cf. Auct. Vir. Ill. 69.4). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Consul 84 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f., 130, 482f.; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd. (Carbone II et Scribonio), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Carbo, CIL 12.2.683; Cic. Verr. 2.1.11 and 34; and on Cinna, Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f. Cinna was killed early in the year by mutinous troops at Ancona while arranging passage for his army to Epirus (Liv. Per. 83; Vell. 2.24.5; Plut. Sert. 6.1; Pomp. 5.1-2; App. BC 1.77-78; Iul. Exup. 4; Auct. Vir. Ill. 69.4; Oros. 5.19.24; Zonar. 10.1). Carbo continued Cinna's preparations against Sulla's return from the East (Liv. Per. 84; App. BC 1.78), and continued in Picenum and Cisalpine Gaul until checked by Pompey (Plut. Pomp. 5-6). As unfavorable auspices prevented the holding of elections he remained sole Consul throughout the rest of the year (Fast. Cap.; Vell. 2.24.5; Plut. Pomp. 5.2). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 87-84. According to our sources, Cinna was planning to transport his army from Ancona to Liburnia (not Epirus, as in MRR 2.60) when he was killed early in 84 by his mutinous troops (see Badian, Studies 226-228). In the entries in MRR 2.55, 57, and 60, add the phrase Pr. by 90. On the college of two patrician consuls in 86, see MRR 2.30, note 3. T. J. Cadoux suggests that this case, in view of the absence of record of protest at Caesar and Lepidus in 46 (2.293) and at later examples such as Octavian and Messalla in 31 (2.420), indicates, not disregard of mos and ius, but repeal or obsolescence of the old law. (Broughton MRR III)

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