Aulo Cecina (... - ...) was one of the exponents of the Cecina family of Etruscan origin. He published a booklet against Caesar, and was consequently forced into exile after the Battle of Farsalo (48 BC). Biography modifies wikitesto
To obtain the forgiveness of Caesar, he wrote another work titled Querelae, which he sent to Cicero for a review. Among the letters of Cicero there is a rather long written by Cecina to Cicero and three Cicero in Cecina. (Caesar 75; Cic. To Fam. VI 5-8). In 47 Cecina was in Asia and was recommended by Cicero to the proconsul Publio Servilio, the governor of the province (to Fam. XIII 66). There he went to Sicily and was still recommended by Cicero to Furfanio, governor of Sicily (ad Fam. VI 9). From Sicily, he went to Africa, and at the defeat of the Pompeii there in the same year, on the 46th, he surrendered to Caesar, who spared his life. (Aulo Irzio: Bellum Africanum 8-9)
Cecina was the author of a work titled Etruscan Discipline, cited by Pliny the old man as one of the authorities used for his second book; Probably coming from this work Seneca quotes (Naturales quaestiones 39) about some of Cecina's observations on the different kinds of lightning. Cicero tells us (to Fam. VI 3) that Cecina was taught by his father in the knowledge of Etruscus and speaks of him as a talented man and possessing oratory gifts. Seneca (Naturales quaestiones 56) says it would be famous for eloquence if it had not been shadowed by Cicero's personality. It must be the same Cecina whose Etruscan Discipline work is cited in the Virgin Veronese Scholars, about the Eneide (X 198, ed. Mai). Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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