Cincinnati to Cincinnati
- Rome, a. C. 458. Lucius Quinctius Cinnatus (c. c. 519-c. 430) The Roman patrician lived quietly and easily on his estate, labouring the land. But in that year, when the equals attacked the Romans, those who were assaulted went to Cincinnati and asked him to return to public activity: they named him a dictator.
According to the laws of the time, dictators were officials with absolute power for six months and were appointed in the most difficult times to expedite the decision-making process as much as possible.
Upon hearing of his appointment, he left the plough, went to the forum, gathered the army and headed to the battlefield. Immediately after the conquest of the Equos, he resigned from office, without making use of his absolute power more than due, and returned to the quiet mansion. Or that's what legend says. Chisincinnatus acted in the early years of the Roman Republic, but its fame would come in the imperial era, when the short dictator became a model of free abuse of power.
In 1783, when the U.S. War of Independence ended, many of the military who participated in the conflict remained unaware of what to do and how to act. Some of them created the Cincinnati Association. The name was chosen in honour of the Roman dictator and its character wanted it to resemble it. By doing what they had to do on the battlefield, they did not want the military to influence political activity in times of peace; like Cincinnati, they wanted to hold on to civilian life. And so the cincinnati left the war and dedicated themselves to cultivating new lands and founding new villages.
As a result, western Appalache was founded or promoted by towns that would later be important, such as Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania.
On the banks of the Ohio River, in 1788 John Cleves Symmes founded a town called Losantiviolle. The following year the Fort Washington Fort was installed and a year later, in 1790, Arthur St. Clair arrived in Losantiville. General and major of the war, upon arriving at St. Clair, president of the Cincinnati Association, decided to rename Cincinnati and called Cincinnati in honor of the association and, of course, the Roman patrice.
But the name is not the only link Cincinnati has with Rome. The seven hills of the capital of the former Empire are known, since from Cincinnati it has so many other hills, so it is also known as “the city of the seven hills”.
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