None of the works of Cincius is extant, but he is cited by
Livy,
Festus, and others. The several works attributed to a Cincius have been assigned to one or the other of these 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.[5]
References
^T.P. Wiseman, Clio's Cosmetics (Bristol Phoenix Press, 2003, originally published 1979 by Leicester University Press), p. 45; but this is based on a reference in
Macrobius (Saturnalia 1.12.12) to a L. Cincius (Cingius in some editions) who wrote a book De
fastis also sometimes attributed to the annalist
Lucius Cincius Alimentus, particularly since
John Lydus gives the title in
Greek and Alimentus wrote in Greek.
^Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, originally published 1987 in Italian), p. 70.