page_title: Cornelia gens
section_title: Cornelii Cinnae
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelia gens / Members / Cornelii Cinnae
caption_attribution_description: English&#x3a;&#32; Roman Republic Lucius Cornelius Cinna (consul 127 BC). 169-158 BC. Æ As (31mm, 24.55 g, 1h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Ianus; I (mark of value) above Prow of galley right; CINA above, I (mark of value) to right.Italiano&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; Repubblica Romana: Lucio Cornelio Cinna. Æ Asse (31mm, 24,55 g, 1h). Zecca di Roma. Testa laureata di Giano; I (segno di valore) sopra Prua di galera dx; CINA sopra, I (indicazione di valore) a destra. Crawford 178/1; Sydenham 368; BMCRR 804. Cornelia 11.
context_page_description: 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 other gens. At least seventy-five consuls under the Republic were members of this family, beginning with Servius Cornelius Maluginensis in 485 BC. Together with the Aemilii, Claudii, Fabii, Manlii, and Valerii, the Cornelii were almost certainly numbered among the gentes maiores, the most important and powerful families of Rome, who for centuries dominated the Republican magistracies. All of the major branches of the Cornelian gens were patrician, but there were also plebeian Cornelii, at least some of whom were descended from freedmen.
context_section_description: Lucius Cornelius L. f. Cinna, triumvir monetalis between 169 and 158 BC, legate in 136, praetor by 130, and consul in 127.
  Lucius Cornelius L. f. L. n. Cinna, consul in 87 (deposed), and from 86 to 84 BC.  He was the leader of the Populares after the death of Gaius Marius, but was murdered by his own soldiers during his fourth consulship.
  Cornelia L. f. L. n., wife of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.
  Cornelia L. f. L. n., sometimes known as Cinnilla, daughter of the consul of 87 BC, and wife of Gaius Julius Caesar.
  Lucius Cornelius L. f. L. n. Cinna, praetor in 44, and consul suffectus in 32 BC.
  Cornelius (L. f. L. n.) Cinna, quaestor of Publius Cornelius Dolabella against Marcus Junius Brutus in 44 BC.
  Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus, consul in AD 5.
caption: As of Lucius Cornelius Cinna (here spelt Cina), minted between 169 and 158 BC.  The obverse depicts the head of Janus, while the reverse shows a prow.
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