Talk:Cincinnatus
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I have heard that the US city was not so much named in his honour as in honour of his example, to commend normalisation after war rather than the growth of an aristocracy drawn from veterans becoming an elite. PML.
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[edit] abilities of Cincinnatus
I'm curious though, why was Cincinnatus picked? According to legend, he's simply a humble farmer, but why did the Senate choose him? Surely he must have participated in politics/military before? -- Natalinasmpf 04:08, 25 September 2005 (UTC)64.106.112.229 64.106.112.229[from: James Sorrell] Cincinnatus was an honourable man, an Army/Legion General who was NOT in love with $$$ or power, and the Romans trusted him...because they knew that as soon as he quickly fixed things, he would go back to his farm....a place he loved, especially to his family! Read "The Declaration of RE-Independence" [Cincinnatus is mentioned there], the USA's LAST chance to re-invent itself before self-destruction--->>> http://jimsorrell.proboards33.com or http://thekeeperoftheflame.blogspot.com [sorrell.james@gmail.com]19:58, 21 September 2006 (UTC)~~
Hi Natalinasmpf, Cincinnatus was NOT simply a farmer. All important roman families (and Quinctii were important- see consules) owned vaste properties. (Lucius Quinctius was once consul and twice dictator). But he had a "bad" son; see it:Il figlio di Cincinnato (unluckily not translated yet) and almost all Cincinnatus' properties had to be sold out. Only 4 jugera were left to the Family becauase they were intouchable. Sorry for my basic english. ;) Vale! it:Utente:Horatius
By the way. I didn't find a town named "Cincinnato". In Italy we have only a small village near Anzio (Rome) called Cincinnato. And -obviuously - a lot of Streets, Squares, and so on in almost all towns :D. Vale! it:Utente:Horatius 151.37.228.75 10:59, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] dictatorship
Isn't the word "dictatorship" an anachronism? A dictator in rome wasn't really what we mean today...
nope. it's the other way around, sort of. Dictator is an honest-to-god latin word. It, like Tyrant, have come to have more negative, despotic connotations today. But they're not anachronistic. Novium 17:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Keeping focus
Why was Cincinnatus ar15 taken out. I guarantee you a site with a 100,000 members knows more about there member cincinnatus than the actual roman. DO a google search 8 pages 257 entries. I know why. Cleaned it up.
- Cincinnatus the Poster on AR15.com was taken out because the information did not refer to Cincinnatus the Roman. It refered to someone completely different. If you believe that a poster on a large discussion board site deserves to be included in Wikipedia (which I don't agree with), then write a seperate entry about them. But I really don't think it is worth it. And I know that it doesn't belong to this entry. This entry is not a discussion of the name 'Cincinnatus'. It is an entry about the Roman of that name. --Jonathan O'Donnell 06:30, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The movie Gladiator
The unreferenced fact that Russel Crowe's character in the movie Gladiator, which may have been partially based on Cincinnatus is completely irrelevant. I wish people would stop cluttering articles with senseless pop-culture "trivia". Oleanna1104 13:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] analyst
the article says "According to analysts (he was a farmer etc etc)". Is that right? Shouldn't it be, oh, historians, or scholars, or...? Novium 17:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I think that's meant to read annalists. Makes a bit more sense than talking about historians or scholars since in the end they rely on what was written in ancient sources (annals). EmmaRoma 23:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
