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Cincinnatus's Birtue In Western Studies: Six Virtues

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In Westerns Studies, we were educated on six different virtues that were displayed by six different Romans. The six different virtues that were displayed were, honesty displayed by Regulus, service without reward displayed by Cincinnatus, courage displayed by Horatius, forgiveness displayed by Saul and compassion/kindness displayed by Androcles. Among those six virtues, the virtue that was the greatest was the virtue of service without reward, which was displayed by Cincinnatus. Cincinnatus displayed the virtue of service without reward when he was given the task to lead the men of Rome into a battle, and when he returned the white-haired Fathers offered him power over Rome, but he did not want that and instead went back to his farm (Bennett,
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