Cineas
(
Κινέας). A Thessalian, a minister and friend of Pyrrhus,
and employed by the latter on many embassies. He had been a pupil of Demosthenes, and
possessed considerable talent as an orator. Having been sent by Pyrrhus to Rome with proposals
of peace, he compared the Senate, on his return, to an assembly of kings, and a war with the
Romans to a contest with another Lernaean hydra. He died about B.C. 276. See
Pyrrhus.