Cincinnatus
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Cincinnatus. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
the hero of a patriotic legend of Rome. Born about 519 B. C. He was an upholder of the patricians in their struggles with the plebians. He cultivated a field of four acres across the Tiber from Rome. In 458 a Roman army was hemmed in a defile of Mt. Algidus. The senate named Cincinnatus dictator and sent deputies to inform "the sole hope of the Roman people." Livy tells the story: This man cultivated a farm of four acres. "There, either leaning on a stake in a ditch which he was digging, or ... ploughing, ... being requested by the ambassadors to listen to the commands of the Senate," he was saluted Dictator of Rome. Going immediately thither, he led the citizens against their foes, and soon returned victorious. "The leaders of the enemy were led before his car; ... his army followed, laden with spoil." Having finished his task, he resigned his dictatorship on the sixteenth day of holding it, and returned to his farm.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LUCIUS QUINC- TIUS, a wealthy patrician in the early days of the Roman Republic, born about 519 B. C. He succeeded Publicola in the consulship, and then retired to cultivate his small estate beyond the Tiber. The messengers of the senate found him at work on his farm when they came to summon him to the dictatorship. He rescued the army from its peril, and then returned quietly to his farm. At the age of 80 he was again appointed dictator to oppose the ambitious designs of Spurius Mælius.