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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 376 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Roman patrician See also:family of the gens See also:Cornelia. The most prominent member was See also:Lucius See also:CORNELIUS CINNA, a supporter of See also:Marius in his contest with See also:Sulla. After serving in the See also:war with the See also:Marsi as praetorian See also:legate, he was elected See also:consul in 87 B.C. Breaking the See also:oath he had sworn to Sulla that he would not See also:attempt any revolution in the See also:state, Cinna allied himself with Marius, raised an See also:army of Italians, and took See also:possession of the See also:city. Soon after his triumphant entry and the See also:massacre of the See also:friends of Sulla, by which he had satisfied his vengeance, Marius died. L. See also:Valerius See also:Flaccus became Cinna's colleague, and on the See also:murder of Flaccus, Cn. Papirius See also:Carbo. In 84, however, Cinna, who was still consul, was forced to advance against Sulla; but while embarking his troops to meet him in See also:Thessaly, he was killed in a See also:mutiny. His daughter Cornelia was the wife of See also:Julius See also:Caesar, the See also:dictator; but his son, L. CORNELIUS CINNA, See also:praetor in 44 B.c., nevertheless sided with the murderers of Caesar and publicly extolled their See also:action. The See also:hero of See also:Corneille's tragedy Cinna (164o) was Cn.

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