Page 101 - The story of Cincinnatus

In the fifty-second year after the expulsion of the kings when the
Roman army was being besieged on the Algidus Mountains by the
Aequians, it pleased the senate that L. Quinatius Cincinnatus would
be appointed dictator. At that time he was cultivating a farm of four
ingerums with his own hands near the Tiber River. There, when he was
plowing, the ambassadors found him; they wished him to hear a senate
mandate. Having been very greatly admired, he ordered his wife to
bring a toga from the cottage. Then, after wiping off the dust and
sweat, wearing the toga, he proceeded to the ambassadors, who
declared him dictator.