CAECINA  , the name of a distinguished See also:

• ETRUSCAN

Etruscan See also:

• FAMILY

family of Volaterrae . See also:

• GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

Graves have been discovered belonging to the family, whose name is still preserved in the See also:

• RIVER

river and See also:

• HAMLET

hamlet of Cecina . AuLUS CAECINA, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by See also:

• CICERO

Cicero (69 B.C.) in a speech still extant, took the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of See also:

• POMPEY

Pompey in the See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• WARS

wars, and published a violent tirade against See also:

• CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS (102—44 B.c.)
• CAESAR, SIR JULIUS (1557-1558-1636)

Caesar, for which he was banished . He recanted in a See also:

• WORK

work called Querelae, and by the intercession of his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, above all, of Cicero,obtained See also:

• PARDON (through the Fr. from Late Lat. perdonare, to remit a debt or other obligation on a penalty)

pardon from Caesar . Caecina was regarded as an important authority on the Etruscan See also:

• SYSTEM

system of See also:

• DIVINATION
• DIVINATION, OMEN, ASTROLOGY

divination (Etrusca Disciplina), which he endeavoured to See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place on a scientific footing by harmonizing its theories with the doctrines of the See also:

• STOICS

Stoics . Considerable fragments of his work (dealing with See also:

• LIGHTNING

lightning) are to be found in See also:

• SENECA

Seneca (Naturales Quaestiones, ii . 31-49) . Caecina was on intimate terms with Cicero, who speaks of him as a gifted and eloquent See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man and was no doubt considerably indebted to him in his own See also:

• TREATISE

treatise De Divinatione . Some of their See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence is preserved in Cicero's letters (Ad Fam. vi . 5-8; see also ix. and xiii . 66) .