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  CINEAS - Online Information article about CINEAS
Samnites of all that had been taken from them, were rejected chiefly through the vehement and patriotic speech of the aged Appius See also:
Two years later Cineas was sent to renew negotiations with Rome on easier terms.
Cicero, who speaks of a Cineas as the author of a See also:
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  Cineas - LoveToKnow 1911
CINEAS, a Thessalian, the chief adviser of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.
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.
The result was a cessation of hostilities, and Cineas crossed over to Sicily, to prepare the ground for Pyrrhus's campaign.
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 Cineas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Roman history, Cineas was a minister of Thessaly and friend of King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
Cineas, however, told Pyrrhus that the Roman senate was an assemblage of venerable kings and that fighting with them was like fighting against the Hydra.
Cineas was also a man of great memory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cineas   (119 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 753 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 380, in the war with the Praenestines, he was appointed dictator, gained a decisive victory over them on the banks of the Alia, and in nine days captured nine towns.
CINEAS (KiWas), a Thessalian, is mentioned by Demosthenes, in a well-knoAvn passage (de Cor.
Pyr­rhus prized his persuasive powers so highly, that " the words of Cineas (he was wont to say) had won him more cities than his own arms." He was also famous for his conversational powers, and some instances of his repartees are still preserved.
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 Historical background
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 612 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Cineas returned to Pyrrhus, and told him he must hope for nothing from negotiation.
Thereupon Pyrrhus, to show his gra­titude, sent Cineas to Rome with all the Roman prisoners without ransom and without conditions ; and the Romans appear to have granted him a truce, though not a formal peace, as he had not consented to evacuate Italy.
Pyrrhus was now at liberty to cross over into Sicily, which he did immediately afterwards, leaving Milo with part of his troops in possession of Tarentum, and his son Alexander with another garrison at Locri (Justin, xviii.
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 Agatharchides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is believed to have been born at Cnidus; thus either leading to his appalation, or because of it.
As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the "evidence for Agatharchides' life is meagre." Photius, describes him as a threptos, a kind of assistant of servile origin, to Cineas and states that he was later a secretary to Heraclides Lembrus.
Cineas served as a councillor to Ptolemy VI; Heraclides is best known for negotiating the treaty that ended Antiochus IV's invasion of Egypt in 169 BC.
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 The Baldwin Project: Pyrrhus by Jacob Abbott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Cineas was, of course, the embassador commissioned to act on this occasion.
Cineas was accordingly dismissed with this answer: that the Romans would listen to no propositions for peace while Pyrrhus remained in Italy.
Fabricius, as Pyrrhus was informed by Cineas, was very highly esteemed at Rome for his integrity and for his military abilities, but he was without property, being dependent wholly on his pay as an officer of the army.
www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=pyrrhus&story=negotiations   (3904 words)

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