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Encyclopedia Britannica



CAECINA

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 934 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
CAECINA , the name of a distinguished
Etruscan
  family of Volaterrae.
Graves
  have been discovered belonging to the family, whose name is still preserved in the river and hamlet of Cecina.
AuLUS CAECINA, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by Cicero (69 B.C.) in a speech still extant, 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 by the intercession of his friends, above all, of Cicero,obtained
pardon
  from
Caesar
 . Caecina was regarded as an important authority on the
Etruscan
 
system
  of divination (Etrusca Disciplina), which he endeavoured to
place
  on a scientific footing by harmonizing its theories with the doctrines of the Stoics. 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 (Ad Fam. vi. 5-8; see also ix. and xiii. 66).


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