Lucius Quinctius, was called Cincinnatus, from his long flowing curls of hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' History of Rome] Reference

Politically, Pliny recognizes the necessity of the empire, but his heroes are old Romans such as Cincinnatus and Cato.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Q. Cincinnatus consensu patrum in dictatorem Romanum electus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

They said the president thinks the Cincinnatus thing isn't working.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brutus Denies All] Reference

LAMB: By the way, because it comes up all the time, who was Cincinnatus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence] Reference

The Senate immediately appointed Cincinnatus, a noble patrician, dictator.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

The idea has an air of simple nobility to me, not unworthy of Cincinnatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference

Thereafter Cincinnatus twice retired to his farm and left the political arena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eliot Spitzer Leaves The Farm For Wall Street] Reference

McCain is a Cincinnatus who put down his plow to serve his country with honor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chart: Polls In Super Tuesday States Show McCain Has It Made] Reference

Cincinnatus was brought back again, and Charles V is felt to have been foolish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn] Reference

Many a time in after years Cincinnatus wished that he had never left that plough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

One cool morning in March 1797, the Baltimore merchant ship Cincinnatus encountered.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Now We Find It Necessary to Take Care of Ourselves": Citizen Involvement and Influence in the Creation of the United States Navy: 1796-1798] Reference

Have not Cincinnatus and Regulus been handed down to posterity, with immortal honour?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 April 1782] Reference

There's one problem with the notion of Perot as Cincinnatus: it's not entirely accurate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perot's Patriot Games] Reference

Cincinnatus became the emblem of the selfless leader, the ideal the Founders aspired to.    From Wordnik.com.  [John R. Bohrer: Cory Booker Is 41 Years Old] Reference

I, a retiring Cincinnatus, wish to present to my little senate, as their future Dictator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dombey and Son] Reference

Little Rock as a legislator from his district, but, like Cincinnatus, had since resumed the plow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 10, October, 1888] Reference

Had not Cincinnatus himself pigs on his farm, and was he not a general and member of Congress too?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

It is the story of Cincinnatus, the Roman who put aside his personal needs for the needs of Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Draft Ken Welch] Reference

Cincinnatus and his farmer's frock may do at the beginning; but the end must be Cæsar and the purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Here lives a Cincinnatus in retirement, one of the great pioneers of mountain civilization, named Bozeman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

His appearance in Trumbull's picture of the surrender of Cornwallis shows us more of a Cincinnatus than of an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

They were thus forced to surrender, and Cincinnatus obliged them to pass under the yoke, in token of subjugation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

Cincinnatus: Washington did not affect rôle of, 6; picture of the American at Mount Vernon, 131; mentioned, 317.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington: Farmer] Reference

Where other men would have been consumed by their appetite to retain power, Cincinnatus was content to till the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eliot Spitzer Leaves The Farm For Wall Street] Reference

Cincinnatus then led his army back to Rome in triumph, laid down his office, and sought again the retirement of his farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Lucius Quintius, son of Cincinnatus, from the unpopular nature of whose dictatorship an occasion for disturbance was sought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

George Washington was likened to Cincinnatus, the Roman hero who abandoned his plow to rescue his country by popular demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toast Remarks By President Clinton And Pm Prodi] Reference

Cincinnatus, claimed that the Labour party was being forced to choose between the socialist objective and white labour policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 15] Reference

Once the war was won, Cincinnatus did not cling to authority as most men might; he restored the republic and returned to his plow.    From Wordnik.com.  [John R. Bohrer: Cory Booker Is 41 Years Old] Reference

The disembodying of the militia at the close of the war (1763) had restored the Major (a new Cincinnatus) to a life of agriculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Life and Writings]

George Washington did not affect the rôle of a Cincinnatus; he took it in all sincerity and simpleness of heart because he loved it.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington: Farmer] Reference

Cincinnatus could not have selected a prettier situation for a farm, than some which presented themselves, during this delightful journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference