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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was legendary in Roman history for defeating the Aequians and rescuing a trapped Roman army, then returning the fasces, the symbol of power he held as appointed dictator of Rome, and taking up the plow again as he resumed the life of a citizen and farmer. In 1790, Governor Arthur St. Clair, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, named the city in his honor. The Society of the Cincinnati was an order of Revolutionary War officers whose first president was George Washington, and the name honored the volunteer spirit of the citizen-soldier.
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