Cincinnatus, Lucius

QUINTUS, a famous Roman consul, and a model of integrity and simplicity of manners, was B. about 519 в. с. In 457 B. c. he was chosen consul in the room of P. Valerius; and when the me engers went to announce his election, they found him cultivating his farm with his own hands. Soon after, in 456 B.C., he was again called to leave his rural obscurity and a ume the dictatorship, in consequence of the perilous position in which the Roman consul and army had been placed by the Æqui. C. rescued the army, inflicted a signal defeat upon the enemy, and then returned to his farm after holding the office of dictator for only 16 days. He was a second time appointed dictator at the age of 80 (в. с. 439), for the purpose of suppre ing the alleged seditious machinations of Sp. Mælius. Cincinna'tus, in Indiana, a village of Hendricks co., 27 m. W. by S. of Indianapolis. Cincinnatus, in New York, a post-village and township of Cortland county, 30 miles N. of Binghamton.