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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hen^ Rome was at war with the.^quians, the latter surrounded a Roman camp on the Alban hills. The dangerwas so imminent that the Senate made haste to select a dictator and choseLucius Quintius Cincinnatus (458 b.c), who was a noble that, having tired ofpopular tumult, had retired to his modest farm. Here the messengers foundhim ploughing in the field, clad only in his tunic or working garment. Cincin-natus asked his wife to throw over him a toga or mantle, so as to show properrespect to the officers of the commonwealth. Yielding to their urging, he lefthis plough in the furrow and assumed the command. He chose Lucius Tarqui-tius, the second bravest of the state, as his master of the horse, and the nextmorning before daybreak was at the Forum levying a new army. Attackingthe ^quians in the rear, he hemmed them in and compelled them to passunder the yoke, as token of their humiliating surrender. This yoke wasformed by fixing two spears upright in the ground, with a third fastened across
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MUCIUS DEFYING PORSENA Rome—Legend of Cincinnatus 315 them, the contrivance resembling in form the goal used on the modern footballfield. The Latin for the ceremony is sub jngmn, from which we have the wordsubjugate. Cincinnatus entered Rome at the head of his army within twenty-four hours after leaving it, the troops laden with spoils in which the consulswere forbidden to share. After holding his dictatorial powers for only fourteendays, Cincinnatus laid them down and returned to his plough. The reader will not fail to notice the parallel between the course of Cincin-natus and that of our own Washington, who has been called the Cincinnatusof the West. The surviving officers of our Revolutionary army in 1783formed the Society of the Cincinnati, to perpetuate their friendship, and toraise a fund for relieving the widows and orphans of those who had fallen inthe war. Washington headed the illustrious list and was the President-General to the close of his life. The story of Cincinnatus

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