Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was a Roman patrician, statesman, and military leader of the early Roman Republic who became a famous model of Roman virtue—particularly civic virtue—by the time of the la
The sculpture of Cincinnatus in Vienna's Schönbrunn Garden
Juan Antonio Ribera's c. 1806 Cincinnatus Leaves the Plough to Dictate Laws to Rome
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus by Denis Foyatier (1793–1863) Tuileries Garden, Paris
Beccafumi's Ahala, Master of the Horse, Presents the Dead Maelius to Cincinnatus, a fresco in Siena's Public Palace
Roman consul
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The consuls were the two highest elected public officials of the Roman Republic. Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum—an ascending sequence of public offices
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
…Cincinnatus that was recounted in Livy's History of Rome and elsewhere, but it is usually accepted that Cincinnatus was a historical figure who served as suffect consul in 460 BC and as dictator in 458 BC and (possibly) again in 439 BC. The most famous story related to Cincinnatus occurs after his retirement from public…
Gold coin from Dacia, minted by Coson, depicting a consul and two lictors
Diptych of Honorius
Diptych of Constantius III