The ''gens Cincia'' () was a

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family at

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. The first member of the ''

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'' to achieve prominence was

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, who was elected

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in 209 BC.

Praenomina used by the gens

The Cincii are known to have used the ''

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Lucius, Marcus,

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'', and '' Publius'', all of which were amongst the most common names throughout Roman history.

Branches and cognomina of the gens

The only prominent family of the Cincii bore the '' cognomen Alimentus'', presumably derived from ''alimentum,'' "food", suggesting that the ancestors of the family may have been cooks. Other cognomina of the Cincii included ''Faliscus'', a Faliscan, ''Salvius'', an

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praenomen, and ''Severus'', a common surname meaning "grave, serious," or "severe". Several Cincii are mentioned without a surname.

Members of the gens

in 209 BC, received the province of

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; a celebrated annalist and jurist, sometimes identified with a more obscure Cincius who was an

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probably in the time of

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. * Marcus Cincius Alimentus,

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in 204 BC, proposed the '' Cincia Lex de Donis et Muneribus'', also called the ''Lex Cincia'' or ''Muneralis Lex'', concerning the compensation of lawyers. * Marcus Cincius,

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e in 194 BC, wrote to the

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to inform them of an insurrection of the Ligures. He may be the same as Marcus Cincius Alimentus, ''tribunus plebis'' in 204 BC. * Lucius Cincius, the

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or bailiff of Atticus, frequently mentioned in Cicero's letters. * Cincius, entrusted with the government of

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in AD 63, during the government of

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, ''Annales'', xv. 25.

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Praenomina used by the gens

Branches and cognomina of the gens

Members of the gens

See also

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