Aulus Caecina

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Aulus Caecina the son of Aulus Caecina, was an

Ancient Roman
writer.

He took the side of Pompey in the civil wars, and published a violent tirade against Caesar, for which he was banished. He recanted in a work called Querelae, and was pardoned in the mid 40s BCE by Caesar following the intercession of his friends, above all, Cicero, who had defended him in 69 BCE with the speech Pro Caecina.[1]

Caecina was regarded as an important authority on the Etruscan system of

Stoics.[1]

Considerable fragments of his work (dealing with lightning) are to be found in Seneca (Naturales quaestiones, ii. 31–49). Caecina was on intimate terms with Cicero, who speaks of him as a gifted and eloquent man and was no doubt considerably indebted to him in his own treatise De Divinatione. Some of their correspondence is preserved in Cicero's letters (Epistulae ad Familiares vi. 5–8; see also ix. and xiii. 66).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caecīna s.v. Aulus Caecina". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 934.