CINCINNATUS, LUCIUS QUINTUS, a celebrated Roman, reduced to poverty (according to the legend) by having to pay a heavy bail on account of the flight of his son Cæso. He is said to have been ploughing his farm on the banks of the Tiber when called to fill the consulship, and was twice chosen (n.c. 458 and 439) under the same circumstances to be dictator. During his first dictatorship, which he resigned at the end of 16 days, he defeated the Æqui, and afterwards the Volsci, and procured the honourable recall of his son from banishment. In his second dictatorship he was chiefly occupied with thwarting the machinations of Spurius Mælius. See ROMAN HISTORY.