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LUCIUS QUINCTIUS (b. c. 519 B.C.), one of the heroes of See also:early See also:Rome, a See also:model of old See also:Roman virtue and simplicity. A persistent opponent of the plebeians, he resisted the proposal of Terentilius Arsa (or Harsa) to draw up a See also:code of written See also:laws applicable equally to See also:patricians and plebeians. He was in humble circumstances, and lived and worked on his own small See also:farm. The See also:story that he became impoverished by paying a See also:fine incurred by his son Caeso is an See also:attempt to explain the needy position. of so distinguished a See also:man. Twice he was called from the plough to the dictatorship of Rome in 458 and 439. In 458 he defeated the Aequians in a single See also:day, and after entering Rome in See also:triumph with large spoils returned to his farm. The story of his success, related five times under five different years, possibly rests on an See also:historical basis, but the See also:account given in See also:Livy of the achievements of the Roman See also:army is obviously incredible. See Livy iii. 26-29; See also:Dion. Halic. x. 23-25; See also:Florus i.

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critical examination of the story see See also:Schwegler, Romische Geschichte, bk. See also:xxviii. 12; See also:Sir G. Cornewall See also:Lewis, Credibility of early Roman See also:History, ch. xii. 4o; W. lllne, History of Rome, i.; E. Pais, Storia di See also:Roma, i. ch. 4 (1898).

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