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Cinna, a Roman patrician family of the gens Cornelia.

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Roman - Patrician - Gens - Cornelia

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The most prominent member was Lucius Cornelius Cinna.

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His daughter Cornelia was the wife of Julius Caesar, the dictator; but his son, Lucius Cornelius Cinna, praetor ill 44 BC, nevertheless sided with the murderers of Caesar and publicly extolled their action.

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Julius Caesar - 44 BC

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The hero of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Cinna (1640) was Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna, surnamed Magnus (after his maternal grandfather Pompey), who was magnanimously pardoned by Augustus for conspiring against him.

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Pierre Corneille - 1640 - Augustus

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