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Cinna was elected at a time when Sulla ( the current consul ) was very unpopular with the lower classes and the Latin allies, because he had sided with the Roman Senate, blocking the advancement of their rights as citizens.
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Caesar, as the nephew of Marius and son-in-law of Cinna, was targeted.
From Virgil's admiring references to the neoteric writers Pollio and Cinna, it has been inferred that he was, for a time, associated with Catullus ' neoteric circle.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Cinna ( or, less frequently, year 758 Ab urbe condita ).
Cinna was a cognomen that distinguished a patrician branch of the gens Cornelia, particularly in the late Roman Republic.
* Lucius Cornelius Cinna, the son of Lucius Cornelius Cinna and a praetor ; he was a conspirator against Caesar.
Lucius Cornelius Cinna ( died 84 BC ) was a four-time consul of the Roman Republic, serving four consecutive terms from 87 to 84 BC, and a member of the ancient Roman Cinna family of the Cornelii gens.
Cinna was elected as Roman consul in 87 BC, but historians disagree about who supported his election and what his own original political goals and causes were.
Immediately after Cinna's election, Sulla made Cinna swear loyalty to him by taking a stone up to the Capitol and casting it down, " praying that, if he failed to preserve his goodwill for Sulla, he might be thrown out of Rome as the stone was thrown out of his hand ".
The deposition of Cinna was unconstitutional and the only instance of its kind in the history of the Roman Republic.
Because they shared the support of the Italians, Cinna was willing to join forces with Marius.
Thus, in late 87 BC, Cinna was reinstated as consul and the armies reentered the city.
As Cinna and his bodyguard entered, however, Marius refused to enter Rome until his exile was officially repealed.
In 85 BC, Cinna attempted to revive Sulpicius ' bill to solidify the citizenship of the Italian groups, but it was not in practice quickly as the census the next year lists 463, 000 citizens.
Much of what Cinna ’ s attention while ruling Rome was focused on was dealing with Sulla.
It is unlikely that this was contested because Cinna and his allies had enough power that no one dared to run in opposition to them.
As Cinna and Carbo doubled their efforts for war with the looming threat of Sulla, Cinna was unaware that it would not be battle, but his preparations for war which would cost him his life.
Cinna was murdered in a mutiny of his own soldiers in 84 BC.
In either account, Cinna was murdered not due to his politics, but as more of a brief flare up of the mob spirit within his troops.
Christoph Bulst argues that Cinna was killed in “ an absolutely un-political mutiny ,” pointing out that there is no mention of specific opposition against Cinna, and that he did not even feel the need to travel with a bodyguard.
Cinna and elected
Somehow then, Cinna had enough support to be elected.
* Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.
( Gnaeus Octavius, a supporter of Sulla, and Lucius Cornelius Cinna, a supporter of Marius, were elected consul ).
Marius and Cinna were elected consuls for the year 86 BC.
Gnaeus Octavius ( died 87 BC ) was a Roman senator who was elected consul of the Roman Republic in 87 BC alongside Lucius Cornelius Cinna.
Octavius then illegally stripped Cinna of his consulship and his citizenship, and had elected in his stead Lucius Cornelius Merula.
When his father died in 86 BC, the young Marius assumed leadership of his father ’ s adherents and clients, although overall control of the Marian faction was held by Cinna, who was elected consul on consecutive years until his death in 84 BC.
In 127 BC he was consul with Lucius Cornelius Cinna and in 125 BC he was elected censor.
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* Lucius Cornelius Cinna, consul four consecutive times 87 – 84 BC, a popularist leader allied with Gaius Marius against Sulla, and at the time of his death the father-in-law of Julius Caesar.
It is clear that there were later connections between Cinna and this group ( see " Preparations while in exile "), but it is not clear at what point he took up this cause.
Although Appian states that Cinna had no support from the “ old citizens ” in anything, including the street fight, this is highly unlikely, as none of his laws would have been a threat without at least some support from this quarter.
This caused another soldier to throw a stone at Cinna, which struck him.
at :- 86 text: BC 86 – Seventh consulship alongside Cinna
* Atilius Serranus, one of the distinguished men slain by order of Marius and Cinna, when they entered Rome at the close of 87 BC.
She tells Seldon that she is a historian from Cinna, and, before her involvement in The Flight, Dors taught history classes at Streeling University on Trantor.
According to Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian and Dio Cassius, at Julius Caesar's funeral in 44 BC, a certain Helvius Cinna was killed because he was mistaken for Cornelius Cinna, the conspirator.
It has been suggested that it was really Cornelius, not Helvius Cinna, who was slain at Caesar's funeral, but this is not borne out by the authorities.
Hearing that Cinna had gained the support of the army of Appius Claudius at Nola, Octavius and the Senate began preparing Rome to withstand a siege, whilst sending out appeals to the various promagistrates to come to the assistance of the Senate.
Meeting up with Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius and Publius Licinius Crassus ( who had eventually obeyed Octavius ’ plea to return to Rome ) at the Alban Hills, he was frustrated when they began to negotiate with Cinna, even going so far recognizing Cinna as consul.
Fearful at these turn of events, and at news that the Senate was also contemplating coming to terms with Cinna, he fell out with Metellus Pius, who had initially refused his soldier ’ s demands that he take command from Octavius.
He acted as proconsular governor of the province, but this was unrecognized by Cinna and his regime at Rome.
He approached the Cambridge Festival Theatre for work, and at the age of 16 was cast by Peter Hoare as Cinna the Poet in a modern-dress version of Julius Caesar.
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