• Gaius Helvius Cinna (died 20 March 44 BC) was an influential neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic, a little older than the generation of Catullus...
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    Courtney, E. (2003). Who's Who in the Classical World. Oxford, entry: Helvius Cinna, Gaius. Fordyce (1961), p. 123. Fordyce (1961), pp. 182–183. Wiseman, T...
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  • included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on Helvius Cinna and the poems of Virgil, and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping...
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  • by taking his own life, when Brutus was captured by his enemies. Gaius Helvius Cinna, a celebrated poet, friend of Catullus, and tribune of the plebs...
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    military historian Gaius Helvius Cinna (1st century BC), poet Marcus Caelius Rufus (87–48 BC), orator, correspondent with Cicero Gaius Sallustius Crispus...
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  • tribune of the plebs, Helvius Cinna, was torn to pieces by an enraged mob after they mistook him for the praetor Cornelius Cinna, on account of their identical...
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  • Cornelius Cinna - two; politician and son Gaius Helvius Cinna - poet Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus - consul Gaius Julius Civilis - noble Batavian Gaius Julius...
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  • Bithynia and Pontus. His staff included the young poets Catullus and Helvius Cinna; on his return to Rome, Catullus wrote verses complaining of how Memmius...
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    years in Rome. His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius (son of the orator and rival of Cicero), and the...
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    Eclogue 9 (section Cinna)
    become Virgil's literary executor and helped publish the Aeneid. Gaius Helvius Cinna was a poet of a previous generation (he died in 44 BC). He was a...
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  • Hermippus of Berytus, his mother's name was Tetha. He was taken prisoner by Helvius Cinna in the Mithridatic Wars and carried to Rome in 66 BC. He subsequently...
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  • who had saluted Caesar as king. At Caesar's urging, the tribune Gaius Helvius Cinna arranged for Epidius to be deprived of his office, and expelled from...
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    he had hitherto produced nothing comparable to the work of Varius or Helvius Cinna. Macrobius (Saturnalia, vi. I, 39; 2, 19) states that Varius composed...
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  • worked in the Roman theatre, and wrote a well-regarded commentary on Gaius Helvius Cinna's poem, Smyrna. In the latter half of the first century BC, he taught...
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  • 493: Lucius Albinius C. f. Paterculus 493: Gaius Icilius (Viscellius?) Ruga 493: Lucius Junius Brutus 493: Gaius Licinius 493: Publius Licinius 493: Lucius...
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    medical writer Geminus, Rhodian Greek astronomer and mathematician Helvius Cinna, Roman poet Horace, Roman poet Huan Tan, Chinese poet, philosopher and...
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    Iapodes, rebelled, but the Roman legate named Marcus Helvius (whom Syme relates to the poet Helvius Cinna), sent against them, succeeded in nipping the revolt...
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    wrote a pamphlet proving that Caesarion was not Caesar's child, and C. Helvius Cinna—the poet who was killed by rioters after Antonius' funeral oration—was...
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    consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and killed the other consul, Gnaeus Octavius, achieving his seventh consulship. Marius and Cinna revenged their partisans...
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  • work much used by Pliny the Elder Res Etruscae, probably on augury Helvius Cinna (died 20 March 44 BC) Zmyrna, a mythological epic poem about the incestuous...
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  • Cornelius Merula Gaius Helvius Marcus Porcius Cato 197 Lucius Atilius Marcus Helvius Lucius Manlius Vulso Marcus Minucius Rufus Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus...
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    story was the subject of the most famous work (now lost) of the poet Helvius Cinna. Several alternate versions appeared in the Bibliotheca, the Fabulae...
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    wrote a pamphlet proving that Caesarion was not Caesar's child, and C. Helvius Cinna – the poet who was killed by rioters after Antonius's funeral oration –...
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    Cimber) Helvius Cinna, Roman poet Lorenzo Ferrero: Le piccole storie: Ai margini delle guerre Giselher Klebe: Die Ermordung Cäsars Lucius Cornelius Cinna, Roman...
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    Catullus, who very likely knew Lesbia's true identity. They include Helvius Cinna, Pollio, Nepos, Varro and even Cicero himself. Moreover, scholars agree...
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    this compromise held until 376 BC, when two of the tribunes of the plebs, Gaius Licinius Calvus Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus, blocked the election...
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  • known example is Catullus, who, along with the poet Helvius Cinna, accompanied his patron Gaius Memmius to Bithynia in 57–56 BC, but was disappointed...
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