Martin O’Neill’s return to Celtic mirrored the legend of Cincinnatus: answering the call, saving the club, then stepping ...

In his final speech as British Prime Minister on Sept. 6, Boris Johnson said, "Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plow." The comparison to the classical Roman figure caused a spike in search terms ...

LONDON — “Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plow,” Boris Johnson said Tuesday from a lectern outside 10 Downing Street during his final speech as Britain’s prime minister before traveling to ...

Lucius Cincinnatus, a Roman statesman and military legend who lived in the 5th century BCE, is considered the embodiment of glorious civic virtue and renunciation of political power. As Roman forces ...

“The first—the last—the best: The Cincinnatus of the West.” Lord Byron paid tribute to George Washington by way of a classical metaphor, which, by the early 19th century, had become the predominant ...

On Tuesday, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave his final speech in front of 10 Downing Street and declared “like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plow.” But Johnson — and nearly all ...

Cincinnatus is getting a face-lift. ArtWorks installed swing scaffolding this week on the north-facing façade of the Kroger Co. headquarters Downtown to prepare for a full restoration of the over ...

INVITATION TO A BEHEADING (223 pp.) —Vladimir Nabokov—Pufnam ($3.95). The cell is bare except for the customary simple furniture, the hopeless messages from past prisoners scrawled on the walls and an ...