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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 374 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CINEAS  , a Thessalian, the

chief adviser of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus . He studied oratory in Athens, and was regarded as the most eloquent man of his age . He tried to dissuade Pyrrhus from invading Italy, and after the defeat of the Romans at
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Heraclea (28o u.c.) was sent to Rome to discuss terms of peace . These terms, which are said by Appian (De Rebus Samniticis, so, II) to have included the freedom of the Greeks in Italy and the. restoration to the Bruttians, Apulians and
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Samnites of all that had been taken from them, were rejected chiefly through the vehement and patriotic speech of the aged Appius Claudius Caecus the censor . The withdrawal of Pyrrhus from Italy was demanded, and Cineas returned to his master with the report that Rome was a temple and its senate an assembly of kings . Two years later Cineas was sent to renew negotiations with Rome on easier terms . The result was a cessation of hostilities, and Cineas crossed over to Sicily, to prepare the ground for Pyrrhus's
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campaign . Nothing more is heard of him . He is said to have made an epitome of the Tactica of
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Aeneas, probably referred to by
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Cicero, who speaks of a Cineas as the author of a
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treatise De Re Militari . ' I.e. the " curly-haired." See Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 11-21; Justin xviii . 2;
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Eutropius ii . 12; Cicero, Ad Far. ix .

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