Cincĭus, a, um, the name of a Roman gens; hence,
I M. Cincius Alimentus, a tribune of the people , A.U.C. 549, whose legal enactment was called Lex Cincia De donis et muneribus (quā cavetur antiquitus, ne quis ob causam orandam pecuniam donumve accipiat, Tac. A. 11, 5); cf. Cic. Sen. 4, 10; id. de Or. 2, 71, 286; id. Att. 1, 20, 7; also: Lex muneralis, Plaut. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. muneralis, p. 143 Müll.; cf. Savigny upon the Lex Cincia, etc., in his Zeitschr. für Gesch. Rechtswissenschaft IV., I. 1, pp. 1-59; Rudorff, de L. Cincia.—
II L. Cincius Alimentus, a distinguished Roman historian in the time of the second Punic war , Liv. 21, 38, 3; perh. the same with the consul L. Cincius, Liv. 26, 28, 3; 26, 28, 11; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 257; Hertz, de L. Cinciis.—
III L. Cincius, the business agent of Atticus , Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1; 1, 1, 7 init. ; 1, 16, 17; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1.—
IV Cincia, locus Romae, ubi Cinciorum monimentum fuit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 57, 5; cf. Fest. p. 262, 4 Müll.