Aulus Caecina Severus

Aulus Caecina was a Roman writer and orator of the late Republic.

His eponymous father, who came from Volaterrae was 69 BC by Marcus Tullius Cicero in an extant speech (per A. Caecina ) defends. The son is mentioned in several letters of Cicero. He was an expert on the Weissagungslehre of the Etruscans ( Etrusca disciplina ) and told the exiled Cicero 57 BC to return to Rome ahead. As a speaker he was gifted.

In 49 BC, civil war erupted Caecina slapped himself on the side of Pompey. He published a sharp invective against Caesar, so he was banished and had to stay in Sicily. Cicero and other friends tried 46/45 BC to reach the dictator Caecinas pardon, after he had revoked his attack on Caesar in his work Querelae; it is unclear whether the efforts during his lifetime Caesars had success. Caecina is mentioned in a letter of Cicero on May 43 BC, when he was in Rome.

Caecina tried the Etrusca Disciplina by harmonizing with the doctrines of the Stoics to put on a scientific basis. Larger fragments of his work on lightning Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones are in.

Caecina was with Cicero, who knew him from childhood, good friends, and the latter describes him as a gifted and eloquent man. Some pieces of their correspondence, including a letter Caecinas are preserved in Cicero's letters. Caecina had a son who was as a young man ( adulescens ) at the time of his exile with him in Sicily before moving to Cicero to Rome, and at least one other child.