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Like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus on a similar occasion, General Putnam is celebrated in New England for leaving his plow in mid-furrow to go to fight the British. Even before that, the general was a local legend as "Old Put," homespun hero of the French and Indian War, who escaped scalping only by a mixture of courage and guile...
...first dictators in history was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. In 458 B.C. he was appointed dictator by the Roman Senate, being called from the plow to save Rome from foreign invasion . . . Having fulfilled the task . . . imposed upon him by the Senate, he returned to his plow ... The first dictator of our times was Lenin. He went to Russia in 1917 [from exile in Switzerland] ... He called to the Russian armies ... to drop their rifles, fraternize with the Germans, and run home "to loot the loot," and then he seized power from the provisional government . . . After that, Lenin concluded peace with Germany...
Since the fig leaf went out of style, the problem of proper dress for state occasions has bothered each succeeding generation. When Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was hastily summoned to the dictatorship of Rome in 458 B. C., he is reputed to have left his oxen hitched to the plow, but history does not say whether he changed to a fresh toga before proceeding to the Capitol. Twenty-two odd centuries later, Mrs. Jackson was intensely annoyed at some of the President's convivial adherents, who, coming in their native gard to congratulate him at his inauguration, stood in muddy boots...
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