Cineas
Cīnĕas, ae, m., = Κινέας,
- the friend of king Pyrrhus of Epirus, who counselled him to make peace with the Romans, he is said to have had a remarkably retentive memory, Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 59; id. Sen. 13, 43; id. Fam. 9, 25, 1; Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 88; 14, 1, 3, § 12; Sen. Contr. 1, prooem. 19. p. 65 Bip.
Cīneās, ae, m. (Κίνέας), ein Thessalier, Freund u. Diener des Pyrrhus, Königs von Epirus, Anhänger der epikurëischen Philosophie, Nachahmer des Demosthenes in der Beredsamkeit, auch Schriftsteller über das Kriegswesen, Cic. Tusc. 1, 59; ep. 9, 25, 1.
Cīnĕās, (16) æ, m. (Κινέας), ambassadeur de Pyrrhus : Cic. Tusc. 1, 59.
Cineas
(Κινέας). A Thessalian, a minister and friend of Pyrrhus, and employed by the latter on many embassies. He had been a pupil of Demosthenes, and possessed considerable talent as an orator. Having been sent by Pyrrhus to Rome with proposals of peace, he compared the Senate, on his return, to an assembly of kings, and a war with the Romans to a contest with another Lernaean hydra. He died about B.C. 276. See Pyrrhus.
Cineas
Cineas, a Thessalianprince
- ally of the Pisistratids against Sparta: Hdt. 5.63