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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 934 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAECINA , the name of a distinguished See also:

Etruscan See also:family of Volaterrae. See also:Graves have been discovered belonging to the family, whose name is still preserved in the See also:river and See also:hamlet of Cecina. AuLUS CAECINA, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by See also:Cicero (69 B.C.) in a speech still extant, took the See also:side of See also:Pompey in the See also:civil See also:wars, and published a violent tirade against See also:Caesar, for which he was banished. He recanted in a See also:work called Querelae, and by the intercession of his See also:friends, above all, of Cicero,obtained See also:pardon from Caesar. Caecina was regarded as an important authority on the Etruscan See also:system of See also:divination (Etrusca Disciplina), which he endeavoured to See also:place on a scientific footing by harmonizing its theories with the doctrines of the See also:Stoics. Considerable fragments of his work (dealing with See also:lightning) are to be found in See also:Seneca (Naturales Quaestiones, ii. 31-49). Caecina was on intimate terms with Cicero, who speaks of him as a gifted and eloquent See also:man and was no doubt considerably indebted to him in his own See also:treatise De Divinatione. Some of their See also:correspondence is preserved in Cicero's letters (Ad Fam. vi. 5-8; see also ix. and xiii. 66).

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