Editing Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (section)

===Son of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus===

[[File:Cincinnatus at Schönbrunn.jpg|thumb|200px|The [[sculptures in the Schönbrunn Garden|sculpture]] of Cincinnatus in [[Vienna]]'s [[Schönbrunn Garden]]]]
In the traditional accounts of the story, Cincinnatus's son [[Caeso Quinctius|Caeso]] was an openly violent opponent of the attempts of the plebeians to enact the Terentilian Law, which sought to codify the Roman legal tradition and circumscribe the authority of the patrician consuls. Caeso would lead gangs to drive the [[Tribunes of the Plebs]] from the [[Roman Forum|Forum]], disrupting the procedures necessary to approve it. He was brought up on capital charges in 461{{nbsp}}BC but released on a large [[bail]]. A plebeian named Marcus Volscius testified that his brother, while feeble from sickness, had been knocked down and injured by Caeso with such force that he later died.{{sfnp|''AC''|1879}} Rather than face his accusers in court, Caeso fled to the [[Etruscans]]. He was then [[death penalty|condemned to death]] ''[[Trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' and his father subjected to a huge punitive fine, forcing him to sell most of his estates and to retire from public life to personally work a small farm{{sfn|Livy|loc=''History'', III, § 13}} (some accounts say Caeso was killed with Poplicola in the recovery of the Capitoline from Herdonius).{{sfnp|''AC''|1879}} Modern historians particularly reject the fine as a later invention inserted to explain the dictator's supposed poverty and heighten his virtues.<ref name=dicro/>{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} Some reject the story in its entirety.{{sfnp|Forsythe|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=aEfvR1Qcd0gC&pg=PA204 204]}}