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Jazz (if I may call you by your "first" name):
You are correct that Cincinnatus was the ultimate root from which the name Cincinnati derived, but there was a very important intermediate step:
In 1790, General Arthur St. Clair, the first Governor of the Northwest Territory, arrived at Fort Washington and renamed the settlement Cincinnati in honor of the Society of the Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary War Officers to which he belonged. The society took its name from the Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a partician farmer of ancient Rome who was pressed into military leadership several times to save the republic.
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