Cincinnatus, Lucius Qinctius - A hero of the semilegendary period of Roman history , regarded by the later Romans as the model of antique virtue and simple manners. Cincinnatus appears to have been an uncompromising patrician. About 460 B.C. he was chosen consul, and two years later was made dictator. The story says that when the messengers from Rome came to tell Cincinnatus of his new dignity, they found him plowing on his small farm on the Tiber. He soon rescued the consul Lucius Minucius, who had been defeated and surrounded by the Aequi. After a dictatorship of 16 days, Cincinnatus returned to his farm. When 80 years old, he was once more made dictator (439 B.C.), and suppressed a threatened plebeian insurrection. Speculation: Cincinnati is the plural of Cincinnatus. (A community of people of like behavior.) Dick Miller