Roman poet

Usage examples of cinna.

Sulla then heard that Cinna was actively lobbying many of the backbenchers for their support when Vergilius and another tribune of the plebs, Publius Magius, submitted a motion to the Senate to recommend to the Centuriate Assembly that Sulla be stripped of his imperium and made to answer charges of treason and murder.

Greece for a further year, fretting because his extended absence gave Cinna and his confederates more time to prepare for war.

If he stayed, they would simply search each part of it until they found him, and either pitch him off onto his head or drag him before Cinna for punishment.

With the heat of betrayal on him, Cinna would be deaf to pleas, and death would quickly follow for the charge of rape.

If Cinna was of a mind to, he could have Cornelia strangled to save the honor of his house, though Gaius knew the old man doted on his only daughter.

He returned carrying a cookie sheet with a half dozen chocolate-covered doughnuts and cinna mon rolls on it.

Cornelia's father, Cinna, was another of the political heavyweights Marius was flattering and working to control.

Sugar, Nutmeg, Mace, Cinna mon, Pepper and Ginger, White Bisket, Butter, or 'Captains biscuit,' made with wheat flour or Spanish Rusk, Eggs, Rice, Juice of Lemons, well put up to cure or prevent the Scurvy, Small Skillets, Pipkins, Porringers and small Frying Pans.

Now, mulling over her sire's request that she consider the new Cavernus, she wondered how that could be connected with Baythan's boast that he would, at long last, accomplish his mysterious mission and restore his contractual honor with the High Lady Cinna.

The annals of Rome, in the long period of eleven hundred years, presented him with a various and splendid picture of human life: and it has been particularly observed, that whenever he perused the cruel acts of Cinna, of Marius, or of Sylla, he warmly expressed his generous detestation of those enemies of humanity and freedom.

The Lady Cinna had, however, prejudiced herself in her natural daughter's estimation by humiliating the sire in the heir's presence.

Even in a stunning gathering of the ultra-fashionable, Lady Cinna was outstandingly garbed, her costume composed of the highly prized and costly imbia shells of a nascent gold.

Baythan had, however, invoked the recollection of a conversation and a subsequent painful incident with the High Lady Cinna six years ago, the day before Caissa's fourteenth birthday celebration, the day that Caissa had ventured to raise the matter of the private clause.