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Gaius Helvius Cinna
Tribune of the plebs in 44 BCE
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Tribune of the Plebs
Broughton: He proposed the measure which deprived Caesetius and Marullus of their tribunician powers (see above; a), and it was said had already drawn up a bill at Caesar's wish empowering Caesar to marry such and so many wives as he wished (b). He was killed by the crowd after Caesar's funeral by mistake for the Praetor Cinna (c). On his identification with the poet Cinna, see Plut. Brut. 20.5; Schwabe, Philologus 47 (1889) 169f., and against it, Deutsch, CJ 20 (1925) 326ff.
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Broughton, MRR2
- (a) Liv. Per. 116; Nic. Dam. Vit. Caes. 20.9, FGrH 2A.405; 22.1, ibid. 406; App. BC 2.108; Dio 44.10.3; 46.49.2; Obseq. 70
- (b) Suet. Iul. 52.3; Dio 44.7.3
- (c) Val. Max. 9.9.1; Suet. Iul. 85; Plut. Caes. 68.2; Brut. 20.5-6; App. BC 2.147; Dio 44.50.4, and 52.2; 45.6.3; 46.49.2; 47.11.3; Obseq. 70; Zonar. 10.12
- Plut. Brut. 20.5; Schwabe, Philologus 47 (1889) 169f
- Deutsch, CJ 20 (1925) 326ff
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Broughton, MRR2
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