Lucius Cornelius Cinna was an eminent Roman. He was an adherent of Marius, who, obtaining the consulship 87 BC, along with Cneius Octavius, impeached Sulla and endeavoured to secure the recall of Marius. Being driven from the city by Octavius, he raised the Italian cities, and invested Rome while Marius blockaded it from the sea. On its capture the friends of Sulla were massacred, and Cinna and Marius made themselves consuls in 86 BC; but after the death of Marius the army refused to follow Cinna against Sulla, and put him to death in 84 BC. Research Lucius Cinna
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