Lucio Quinzio Cincinnato

Cincinnatus was an ancient Roman aristocrat and political figure, serving as consul in 460 B.C.E.

Cincinnatus abandons the plough to be elected dictator and fight for Rome
(J. A. Ribera, c. C.E.1806.)

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (520 B.C.E.–430 B.C.E.), Roman politician, consul, and twice dictator.

Quotes about Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

All but one of the dictators of republican Rome were patricians. All but two of them complied with the time limits that were imposed on them. One of them, Cincinnatus, who, after only sixteen days of exercising the supreme office, spontaneously returned to plough the field with oxen, has gone down in history with the colors of legend. (Indro Montanelli)

Note

• Hillyard, Michael J. (C.E.2001). Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal: The Roman Legend's Life, Times, and Legacy. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4628-0465-8.
• EB (C.E.1878), p. 784.
• Niebuhr C.E.1828, pp. 291–292.
• Livy, History, I, § 30.
• DGRB&M (C.E.1867), Vol. III, "Qui′ntia Gens".
• EB (C.E.1911).
• AC (C.E.1879).
• Forsythe (C.E.2006), p. 205.
• DGRB&M (C.E.1867), Vol. I, "Cincinna′tus"
• EB (C.E.1878), p. 748.
• Cicero, On Old Age, § 16
• Livy, History, VI, §§ 28–29.
• Livy, History, §§ 23–30.
• Forsythe (C.E.2015), p. 319.
• Livy, History, III, § 35.
• Livy, History, IV, § 6.
• Livy, History, IV, §§ 13–15.
• Livy, History, III, § 14.
• Forsythe (C.E.2006), p. 204.
• Livy, History, III, § 26.
• NSRW (C.E.1914).
• Livy, History, III, § 27.
• Livy, History, III, §§ 28–29.
• Forsythe (C.E.2006), p. 240.
• Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed. (C.E.1878), Vol. V, "Cincinnati".
• Cramer, Ruby (January 16, C.E.2015), "'Team Cincinnatus': Tom Steyer Draws Name from Roman Dictator", BuzzFeed News, New York: Buzzfeed
• Byron, George Gordon (C.E.1814), Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, § XIX
• Caryle, Thomas (C.E.1895). Sartor Resartus The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. H. Althemus. p. 88.
• Zunshine, Lisa (C.E.2013). Nabokov at the Limits Redrawing Critical Boundaries. Taylor & Francis. p. 109.
• Greenwald, Glenn (C.E.2014). No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state. New York. ISBN 978-1-62779-073-4. OCLC 864356553.
• Grierson, Jamie (September 6, C.E.2022). "Boris Johnson likens himself to Roman who returned as dictator". The Guardian. Archived from the original on September 6, C.E.2022.

Bibliography

• "Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius" , Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 6, C.E.1920
• Cavazzi, F. (April 12, C.E.2012), "The Early Roman Republic", Illustrated History of the Roman Empire
• Gill, N.S. (August 17, C.E.2016), "Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus", About Ancient/Classical History, About.com

Sources

Primary

• Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities, Book X, §§ 23–25.
• Florus, Epitome of Roman History, Book I, § 11.
• Livy, History of Rome, Book III, §§ 26–29.
• Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XVIII, § 4.

Secondary

• Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (C.E.1828). The History of Rome. Vol. 2. Translated by Julius Charles Hare; Connop Thirlwall. Cambridge: John Taylor.
• Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (C.E.1879), "Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus", American Cyclopaedia, Vol. IV, New York.
• Smith, William, ed. (C.E.1867), "Cincinna′tus", A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. I, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co..
• Baynes, T. S., ed. (C.E.1878), "Cincinnatus" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 784–785
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (C.E.1911), "Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 374
• Beach, Chandler B., ed. (C.E.1914), "Cincinnatus, Lucius Quintius", The New Student's Reference Work , vol. 1, Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co
• Forsythe, Gary (C.E.2006), A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 9780520249912
• Forsythe, Gary (C.E.2015), "The Beginnings of the Republic from 509 to 390 B.C.E.", in Mineo, Bernard (ed.), A Companion to Livy, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 313–329.

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