Aulus Caecina Severus (writer)
Aulus Caecina the son of Aulus Caecina, was an Ancient Roman writer.
He took the side of Pompey in the civil wars, and published a violent tirade against Caesar, for which he was banished. He recanted in a work called Querelae, and was pardoned by Caesar following the intercession of his friends, above all, Cicero, who defended him in 69 BC with the speech Pro Caecina.
Caecina was regarded as an important authority on the Etruscan system of divination, which he endeavoured to place on a scientific footing by harmonizing its theories with the doctrines of the Stoics.
Considerable fragments of his work are to be found in Seneca. Caecina was on intimate terms with Cicero, who speaks of him as a gifted and eloquent man and was no doubt considerably indebted to him in his own treatise De Divinatione. Some of their correspondence is preserved in Cicero's letters.
