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Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius
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An old hero of the Roman republic, distinguished for the simplicity and austerity of his manners; was consul in 460 B.C., and on the defeat of a Roman army by the Æqui, called to the dictatorship from the plough, to which he returned on the defeat of the Æqui; he was summoned to fill the same post a second time, when he was 80, on the occasion of the conspiracy of Mælius, with the like success.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/cincinnatus-lucius-quinctius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.