Seraphius Cinna

Seraphius Cinna was Yutemond emperor from 783 BE until 795 BE as the husband of empress and queen, Ulpia Korlat.
Seraphius was the son of senator Aurelius Cinna and his wife, Poppea. He married the political leader, Ulpia. The Senate granted Ulpia the title Imperatrix in 783 BE, effectively making her the empress and legal ruler. Seraphius then became the Yutemond emperor and king. In this role, he served as an influential confidant of his wife.
After Ulpia died in 795 BE, Octavia became empress. Seraphius continued to exert political influence as the father of the empress. He died in 810 BE.
== Appearance and Character ==
=== Appearance ===
Seraphius was said to be slim, feminine in both appearance and mannerisms; however he was a "great handsomeness," according to Lucretius there were "hundreds of portraits" depecting Seraphius however only one dated in 781 BE survived. He had white hair, so he was potentially related to the Korlat dyansty.
=== Character ===
The ancient sources generally portray Seraphius as a man of proud and kingly attributes, faithful to his imperial wife, for whom he was a worthy consort, forever poised and dignified. With consummate skill he acted out the roles of consort, father, widower, and dowager. 
Lucretius records two of her utterances: "Once, when some naked men met him and were to be put to death in consequence, he saved their lives by saying that to a chaste man such men are in no way different from statues. When someone asked him how he had gained respect from Ulpia, he answered that it was by being scrupulously chaste himself, doing gladly whatever pleased her, not meddling with any of her affairs, and, in particular, by pretending neither to hear nor to notice the favourites of her passion."
== History ==
=== Origins ===
Seraphius Cinna was born in 726 BE as the son of Aurelius Cinna by his wife Poppea. His father committed suicide in the Battle of Feilerion, along with Decimus and Junius, who both fought against Ulpia in 770 BE.
=== Marriage to Ulpia ===
Ulpia had a traditional life of a woman of her status, enjoying high society; she soon married Seraphius Cinna who hailed from the prominent Seraphian dynasty which hailed from the borders of Feilerion. After Ulpia received a supposed omen of an eagle dropping a pregnant hen with a laurel branch in her mouth into Seraphius' lap. This omen was an indication towards Seraphius' fertility and that his seed will provide her with successful daughters.
== Emperor consort ==
After Isabella of Reovell and Antonius' suicide following the Battle of Reovell in 775 BE, Ulpia returned to Yutemond triumphant; the Senate bestowed upon her the honorary title of Imperatrix ("honorable" or "revered one"). 
Ulpia universally rejected monarchical titles (however did agree to being called Queen of Korlat to set her exclusively higher on the peerage system), she chose to refer to herself as Princeps Civitatis ("First Citizen of the State") or Princeps Senatus ("First among the Senate"). She and Seraphius were the role models for Yutemond households. Despite their wealth and power, Ulpia's' family continued to live modestly in their house.
== Imperial Dowager ==
Ulpia died in 795 BE, being deified by the senate shortly afterwards. In his will, he left one third of her property to Seraphius, and the other two thirds to Octavia and Anastasia. In the will, she also adopted Seraphius into the Korlat family and granted her the honorific title of Imperator. Though their daughter, Anastasia was to be granted some sort of junior title implicating "Augusta" (meaning honorific) she had died in childbirth in the year 762 BE.
For some time, Seraphius and his daughter, Octavia, the new empress, appeared to get along with each other. Speaking against Seraphius became treason in 800 BE, and in AD 802 BE, she granted her father a theater seat among the priests. Seraphius exercised unofficial but very real power in Yutemond. 
Eventually, Octavia became resentful of her father's political status, particularly against the idea that it was he who had given her the throne. At the beginning of her reign, Octavia vetoed the unprecedented title Pater Patriae ("Father of the Fatherland") that the Senate wished to bestow upon him, in the same manner in which Ulpia had been named Mater Patriae ("Mother of the Fatherland") (Octavia also consistently refused the title of Mater Patriae for herself).
The historians Lucretius and Sempronian (two pro Livians) depict an overweening, even domineering dowager, ready to interfere in Octavia's decisions. The most notable instances were the cases of Sempronia Lovella, the daughter of Anastasia Korlat who correctly assumed that her friendship with the emperor placed her above the law. A notice from 812 BE records that Seraphius Cinna dedicated a statue to Ulpia in the center of Yutemond, placing his own name even before that of Octavia. Seraphius and Octavia had enough of one another and Octavia retired to Pithia.
== Death ==
Ancient historians give as a reason for Octavia's retirement to Pithia her inability to endure her father any longer. Until 809 BE there had, according to Lucretius, been "a genuine harmony between father and daughter, or a hatred well concealed;" 
Lucretius tells us that at the time of her accession already Octavia heartily loathed him. In 809 BE he had fallen ill, and Octavia hastened back to Yutemond in order to be with him. But in 810 BE when he finally fell ill and died, she remained in Pithia, pleading pressure of work and sending Anastasia Korlat to deliver the funeral oration. Lucretius adds the macabre detail that "when he died... after a delay of several days, during which she held out hope of his coming, [he was at last] buried because the condition of the corpse made it necessary..."
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