Cincius' work survives only in citations by later authors, including
Livy and
Festus. For example, Festus cites a work "On the power of the consuls" (Lat.
de consulum potestate, p. 276 L). The several works attributed to "Cincius" have been assigned to one or the other of the two writers by scholars whose criteria for distinguishing them produce varying results. The authorship of the book
De fastis ("On the Fasti"), for instance, has been attributed to either one.
T.P. Wiseman finds it likely that Cincius wrote "a
Pausanias-like guide to the antiquities of the
Capitol (if not the whole city)," including a collection of old
inscriptions, and makes a
jurist of him as well with a work
De officio iurisconsulti. ==References==