So it's a very important image of Cincinnatus giving back his military authority back to the civilian authorities.

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This may be Cheney's way of playing Cincinnatus, the citizen-statesman who laid down his plow to return to Rome.

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Mr. BEUTTLER: Absolutely, because Cincinnatus is the - the image that you see is really one of the first ones that he painted.

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C. historian of early Rome, and took his stories as exempla of heroism, to be cherished and emulated: Scaevola, Horatius Cocles, and Cincinnatus.

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Because Cincinnatus is a figure - and maybe we understand it better now - that was considered to have great pertinence to American history.

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And one of the most significant things about Cincinnatus is not only did he take the command of the Roman republic from the plow, but when he was done he gave the power back to the Roman Senate.

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And during that time of the Roman Republic it was under some severe military strain, and the leaders in Rome went to Cincinnatus at the plow and asked him to lead their nation, lead the Republic, save the Republic.

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