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CINEAS.
4. Q. QUINCTIus L. F. L. N. CINCINNATUS,
consular tribune in B.. 415, and again in 405.
(Liv. iv. 49, 61; Diod. xiii. 34, xiv. 17.)
5. T. QUINCTIUS CINCINNATUS CAPITOLINUS,
consular tribune in B. c. 388, and again in 384.
In 380, in the war with the Praenestines, he was
appointed dictator, gained a decisive victory over
them on the banks of the Alia, and in nine days
captured nine towns. (Liv. vi. 4, 18, 28, 29;
Diod. xv. 23, 36; Eutrop. ii. 2; Festus, s. v.
Triens.)
6. L. QUINCTIUS CINCINNATUS, consular tribune in B. c. 386, again in 385, and a third time in
377, when, with his colleague Ser. Sulpicius, he
raised the siege of Tusculum, of which the Latins
had nearly made themselves masters. (Liv. vi. 6,
32, 33; Diod. xv. 25, 28, 61.)
7. C. QUINCTIUS CINCINNATUS, consular tribune
in B. c 377. (Liv. vi. 32.)
8. Q. QUINCTIUS CINCINNATUS, consular tribune
in B. c. 369. (Liv. vi. 36.)
9. T. QUINCTIUS CINCINNATUS CAPITOLINUS,
consular tribune in B. c. 368, and in the following
year master of the horse to the dictator M. Furius
Camillus, when the Licinian laws were carried.
Livy calls him T. Quinctius Pennus, and as we
have the surnames Cincinnatus Capitolinus in the
Capitoline Fasti, his full name may have been
T. Quinctius Pennus Cincinnatus Capitolinus.
(Liv. vi. 38, 42; Diod. xv. 78.) [C. P. M.]
CI'NCIUS. 1. M. CINCIUs, praefect of Pisae
in B. c. 194, wrote to the senate to inform them of
an insurrection of the Ligures. (Liv. xxxiv. 56.)
He is probably the same as the M. Cincius Alimentus, tribune of the plebs in 204 [p. 132, a].
2. L. CINCIUs, the procurator or bailiff of Atticus, is frequently mentioned in Cicero's letters.
(Ad Alt. i. 1, 7, 8, 16, 20, iv. 4, a., vi. 2, ad Q.
Fr. ii. 2, iii. 1. ~ 2.)
3. CINClUS, who was entrusted with the government of Syria in A. D. 63, during the expedition of
Corbulo. (Tac. Ann. xv. 25.)
CI'NEAS (Kl'as), a Thessalian, is mentioned
by Demosthenes, in a well-known passage (de Cor.
p. 324), as one of those who, for the sake of private gain, became the instruments of Philip of
Macedon in sapping the independence of their
country. Polybius (xvii. 14) censures Demosthenes
for bringing so sweeping a charge against a number
of distinguished men; but he does not enter specially into the question with respect to Cineas and
the Thessalians. (Comp. Dem. de Cor. p. 245, de
OCers. p. 105; Diod. xvi. 38, 69.) [E. E.]
CI'NEAS (Kweas), a Thessalian, the friend
and minister of Pyrrhus, king of Epeirus. iHe
was the most eloquent man of his day, and reminded his hearers (in some degree) of Demosthenes, whom he heard speak in his youth. Pyrrhus prized his persuasive powers so highly, that
" the words of Cineas (he was wont to say) had
won him more cities than his own arms." He
was also famous for his conversational powers, and
some instances of his repartees are still preserved.
(Pllin. H. N. xiv. 12.) That he was versed in
the philosophy of Epicurus is plain from the
anecdote related by Cicero (Cat. Maj. 13) and
Plutarch. (Pyrrh. 20.) But this is no ground
for assuming that he professed this philosophy.
At all events he did not practise it; for, instead
of whiling away life in useless ease, he served
Pyrrhus long and actively; and he took so much

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interest in the art of war, as to. epitomise the
Tactica of Aeneas (Aelian, Tact. 1); and this,
no doubt, is the work to which Cicero refers when
he speaks of Cineas' books d e re miliari (ad Fam.
ix. 25). Dr. Arnold says Plutarch mentions his
Commentaries, but it does not appear to what he
refers. The historical writer referred to by Strabo
(vii. fin. p. 329) may be the same person.
The most famous passage in his life is his
embassy to Rome, with proposals for peace from
Pyrrhus, after the battle of Heraclea (B. c. 280).
Cineas spared no arts to gain favour. Thanks to
his wonderful memory, on the day after his arrival
he was able (we are told) to address all the senators
and knights by name (Plin. H. N. vii. 24); and
in after times stories were current that he sought
to gain them over by offering presents to them and
their wives, which, however, were disdainfully rejected. (Plut. Pyrrh. 18; Diod. Exc. Vatic. xxii.;
Liv. xxxiv. 4.) The terms he had to offer were
hard, viz. that all the Greeks in Italy should be
left free, and that the Italian nations from Samnium
downwards should receive back all they had forfeited to Rome. (Appian, Samn. Fragm. x.) Yet
such was the need, and such the persuasiveness
of Cineas, that the senate would probably have
yielded, if the scale had not been turned by the
dying eloquence of old Appius Caecus. [CLAUDIUS, No. 10.] The ambassador returned and
told the king (say the Romans), that there was no
people like that people,-their city was a temple,
their senate an assembly of kings. Two years
after (B. c. 278), when Pyrrhus was about to cross
over into Sicily, Cineas was again sent to negotiate peace, but on easier terms; and though the
senate refused to conclude a treaty while the king
was in Italy, his minister's negotiations were in
effect successful. (Appian, Samn. Fragm. xi.) Cineas was then sent over to Sicily, according to his
master's usual policy, to win all he could by persuasion, before he tried the sword. (Plut. Pyrrh.
22.) And this is the last we hear of him. He
probably died before Pyrrhus returned to Italy in
B. c. 276, and with him the star of his master's
fortune set. He was (as Niebuhr says) the king's
good genius, and his place was filled by unworthy
favourites. [H. G. L.]
CINE'SIAS (Kivrnras), a dithyrambic poet of
Athens. The Scholiast on Aristophanes (Ran.
153) calls him a Theban, but this account seems
to be virtually contradicted by Plutarch (de Glor.
Ath. 5), and may perhaps have arisen, as Fabricius
suggests (Bibl. Graec. ii. p. 117), from confounding him with another person of the same name.
(Comp. Aristot. ap. hol.. tad Aristo)ph. Av. 1379.)
Fabricius himself mentions Evagoras as his father,
on the authority apparently of a corrupt fragment
of Plato, the comic poet, which is quoted by Galen. (See Dalechamp, ad Athcn. xii. p. 551.) In
the " Gorgias" of Plato (p. 501, e.) he is expressly
called the son of Meles. Iis talents are said to
have been of a very inferior order. Plutarch (1.c.)
calls him a poet of no high repute or creative
genius. The comic wriler, Pherecrates (up. Plut.
de llMus. 30), accuses him of having introduced sad
corruptions into music, and to this Aristophanes
perhaps alludes in the word craparoicdcpTrras. (Nub.
332.) In the Birds (1372-1409), he is introduced as wishing to fly up to Olymnpus to bring
down from the clouds, their proper region, a fresh
supply of "' rambling odes, air-tost and snow