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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

Cincinnatus

also: L. Quinctio Cincinnato

Legendary Roman patrician summoned from his plough to the dictatorship (458 BC); under his order Servilius Ahala killed Spurius Maelius. Cicero's emblem of senatorial farmers.

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Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 1 mention

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