Talk:Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

message: 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.
:It was named after an American society and not the Roman directly. — LlywelynII 01:59, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Old

message: 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)
thread_title:  dictatorship 

message: 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)
thread_title: Keeping focus

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  analyst 

message: First the article says: "laws applicable equally to patricians and plebeians", then "laws that would benefit the aristocracy at the expense of the plebeians".
Would someone care to clarify? (Or aren't those statements contradictory?)
--StephanNaro (talk) 12:27, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Equality or not? 

message: The article says "The name given to Lucius Quinctius was Cincinnatus for his curly hair." That's extremely vague, and I can't find anywhere a Latin word for curly hair that's anything close to cincinnatus. Can someone clear it up? 98.145.79.227 (talk) 03:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Cincinnatus is itself a Latin word that means curly hair, according to the EB11 article this entry was originally cribbed from. It does seems somewhat dubious, though, since some adjective on birth (-natus) seems more likely. We'd need another source to contradict the EB though. — LlywelynII 02:07, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: I read that Cincinnatus became dictator a second time to put down the conspiracy of Maelius, then somewhere else that Cincinnatus was made dictator a second time to put down a plebian conspiracy.  Which one is true if either, and why isn't it put in the section on Cincinnatus?  76.93.210.169 (talk) 19:43, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Both and should be. — LlywelynII 02:08, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cincinnatus and conspiracy of Maelius 

message: The word consul in the first line of the article currently links here.  I think it should go to this, an article on Roman consuls.  Should someone make a change? Tressif (talk) 01:11, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, so I changed it. --LCE(talk contribs) 03:48, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the "consul" link be changed? 

message: The article says that "The following year" after 461 BC, i.e. in 460 BC, Terentilius proposed what would become the twelve tablets, "which would not become readily accessible in public display for several generations". However, the article on the Twelve Tablets says the first ten tablets were completed in 450 BC. Ten years does not sound like "several" generations. Which is correct?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dolda2000 (talk • contribs) 06:31, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline consistency 

message: "the great Capitolinus": this last noun has a hyperlink but if you click on it you find an article dealing with a historical figure who lived some 200 years later. Either the reference to Capitolinus is wrong or the hyperlink should take us to a different Capitolinus.Campolongo (talk) 10:38, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Hyperlink

message: The story of Cincinnatus, as laid out here, smells very much like contemporary patrician propaganda to me.  Given what is mentioned about his opposition to the plebians, (with his son literally throwing them out of the forum) he clearly had strong ties to the aristocracy.  The story about his son being acquitted of military incompetence because, "it would break the old man's heart," also sounds exactly like the sort of gerontocratic cronyism that the Senate was renowned for.
:For the 2nd part of your non-RS diatribe, SEE WP:SOAPBOX, Anon. 203.206.179.33 (talk) 16:23, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Historical Propaganda?

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—but were completely unused by the text. Kindly restore them to the article as they are used to verify parts of the running text or once there is some commentary about how these works are particularly notable in the history of scholarship on L. Quinctius Cincinnatus. — LlywelynII 02:12, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion

message: This article, along with several other articles about ancient Romans, was changed to use a different infobox, . In consequence, there's discussion about which infobox to use and how at Talk:Julius Caesar#Infobox and then at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome#Infoboxes for Roman office-holders as a more central location. NebY (talk) 19:50, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: In the South West in the state of Ohio located in The United States of America there is a city called Cincinnati. and it is named after the Roman General Cincinnatus. 216.48.140.87 (talk) 15:10, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The City of Cincinnati 

message: Cincinnatus was an opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens) who fell into poverty because of his son Caeso Quinctius's violent opposition to their desire for a written code of equally enforced laws.
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This sentence is exceedingly confusing, but I lack knowledge of the facts in order to re-write it.
Opposed rights of (plebeians who fell into poverty because Caeso's opposition to plebeian desire for a written code of equality before the law).
Or...
Opposed rights of (plebeians who fell into poverty) because Caeso's opposition to plebeian desire for a written code of equality before the law.
Or
Opposed rights of (plebeians), who fell into poverty because Caeso's opposition to plebeian desire for a written code of equality before the law.
Anyone knows what's going on? Feco777 (talk) 15:02, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing text