Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was Roman consul in 460 BC and dictator twice, in 458 BC and 439 BC. His first term as dictator began when Rome was being menaced by the Aequi tribe from the east and the Voslcians[?] from the southeast. The Roman Senate pleaded with Cincinnatus to assume the mantle of dictator to save the city. The career of Cincinnatus has become so tied up in legend that extracting actual events is impossible. According to the annalists, Cincinnatus had settled into a life of farming and knew that his departure could mean starvation for his family if the crops went unsown in his absence. He assented to the request anyway and within sixteen days had defeated the Aequi and the Voslcians. His immediate resignation of his absolute authority with the end of the crisis has often been cited as an example of good leadership, service to the public good, and the virtue of modesty.He came out of retirement during his second term as dictator (439 BC) to put down a revolt by the plebians[?].
The town of Cincinnato[?], Italy, and the city of Cincinnati, OH, USA, are named in his honor.
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prosperous industry and middle-class comfort.
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not be allowed to go. The man was in a worse plight than ever.
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poor little Moses to get his meal of bread and cheese; and by the
Telford was much gratified by his visit to Bath, and inspected its
who, he says, "created modern Bath," had left no worthy
designers at work, "blundering round about a meaning"--if, indeed,
he failed to see. From Bath he went to London by coach, making the
doing duty on Hounslow Heath." During his stay in London he
the experience which he had gained since he last saw them. He also
on architecture--the use of which he could not elsewhere procure--
There he perused the various editions of Vitruvius and Palladio,
architectural remains in the British Museum, which he studied with
Herculaneum; "so that," he says, "what with the information I was
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