My beloved colleague is Oxford trained, Martin, and it irks her to no end that Boris Johnson represents the Classics. I once watched a kind of debate between Johnson and Mary Beard on the superiority of the Iliad vs. the Aeneid. It was quite impressive.

Whether Boris Johnson qualifies as an analogue to Cincinnatus (you spelled him correctly), our president Joe Biden has elicited comparisons to Cincinnatus quite often in the press the last week. I've wondered if I shouldn't write a Medium piece explaining who Cincinnatus is!

I'm teaching a course in the fall on the transition from democracy to tyranny, which Plato theorized and our founding fathers feared (and Republican Rome experienced, perhaps). You're spot on.

Thanks for reading and responding, my friend.