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5 unusual facts about Lucius Cornelius Cinna


87 BC

Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the democrats.

Cinna

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.

Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus

Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus (born after 47 BC and before 35 BC-?) was the son of suffect consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and Pompeia Magna.

Papirius

Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, son of the consul of 113 BC, consul three times during the civil wars of the 80s BC as part of the faction of Marius and Cinna.

Quintus Lutatius Catulus

When the chief honour for victory over the Cimbri was given to Marius, Catulus turned vehemently against his former co-commander and sided with Sulla to expel Marius, Cornelius Cinna, and their supporters from Rome.


Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus

On the death of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, in 84 BC, he married his wife Annia, and in the following year, 83, was appointed quaestor to the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio.

Sulla's second civil war

This departure allowed Gaius Marius and his son Gaius Marius the younger to return to Rome with an army and, with Lucius Cornelius Cinna, to wrest control of Rome back from Sulla's supporter Gnaeus Octavius during Sulla's absence.


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