I covered for one of the Latin I classes today, and the students were to read a section on Roman heroes. One of them was Cincinnatus, and I was explaining to them the significance of his renunciation of the dictatorship when the crisis had ended. I also mentioned the Society of the Cincinnati as an organization dedicated to upholding the principles that he embodied.
One of the students piped up and said, “Then how do they have a leader?”