Cinna may refer to:
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Cornelii Cinnae
The gens Cornelia was one of the greatest patrician houses at ancient Rome. For more than seven hundred years, from the early decades of the Republic to the third century AD, the Cornelii produced more eminent statesmen and generals than any oth ...
, an ancient Roman family
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Lucius Cornelius Cinna
Lucius Cornelius Cinna (died 84 BC) was a four-time consul of the Roman Republic, serving four consecutive terms from 87 to 84 BC, and a member of the ancient Roman Cinna family of the Cornelia gens.
Cinna's influence in Rome exacerb ...
, Roman consul four consecutive times in the 80s BC and at the time of his death the father-in-law of Julius Caesar
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Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus
Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus (born between 47 BC and 35 BC) was an ancient Roman politician and the son of suffect consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and Pompeia Magna. His sister was Magna.
His maternal grandparents were triumvir Pompey and Mucia ...
, a conspirator against the emperor
Augustus
Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; he reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He is known for being the founder of the Roman Pr ...
, and the subject of
Corneille
Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...
's tragedy ''
Cinna''
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Cinna (Galatia), a town of ancient Galatia, now in Turkey
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''Cinna'' (plant), a genus of grasses
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Cinna (play), a tragedy by Pierre Corneille
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Cinna, character in ''The Hunger Games'' trilogy
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German Shepherd
The German Shepherd or Alsatian is a German breed of working dog of medium to large size. The breed was developed by Max von Stephanitz using various traditional German herding dogs from 1899.
It was originally bred as a herding dog, for ...
, a variation of which is called Cinna
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Cinna (horse)
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Helvius Cinna Gaius Helvius Cinna (died 20 March 44 BC) was an influential neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic, a little older than the generation of Catullus and Calvus. He was lynched at the funeral of Julius Caesar after being mistaken for an unrelated ...
, a Roman poet
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