r centuries as a part of the history of the Republic. Hence the novus homo (in the strict sense of the term the first member

ld not win power and influence without making many enemies. The novus homo had to tread warily. Anxious not to offend a grea

ue obscuro loco natus’ (In Verrem 11, 5, 181) that is, simply a novus homo . PageBook=>031 licence to write political

painful testimony. The party of the Republic was no place for a novus homo : the Lentuli were synonymous with aristocratic pr

n aristocracy, conspicuous in the Julii and in the Claudii. The novus homo at Rome was all too anxiously engaged in forgetti

5 agent of the proconsul was the admirable C. Valerius Troucillus, ‘ homo honestissimus provinciae Galliae’, son of the tri

o Sulla 24). There are plenty of odd but significant examples of the ‘ homo novus parvusque senator’ (Bell. Afr. 57, 4). Note

own orators who became quaestors (Cicero, Brutus 242), C. Billienus, ‘ homo per se magnus’, who was nearly elected consul c.

facile omnium nobilissimum’ (Ad fam. 6, 6, 9); A. Cluentius Habitus, ‘ homo non solum municipi Larinatis ex quo erat sed etia

talia; he was profuse in praise of the virtue and vigour of the novus homo . No evidence, however, that he was generous in ac

y, no man from remoter Italy whom he helped into the Senate, no novus homo for whom he strove in defiance of the nobiles to

as ‘princeps iam diu publicanorum’ (ib. 24). 2 Ib. 19. 3 J. Vogt, Homo novus (Stuttgart, 1926), 19 ff. 4 Pro Cluentio

tarch, Pompeius 64) may be mentioned. 2 C. Flavius Fimbria, a novus homo (cos. 104) was certainly a partisan of Marius T.

with two of the marshals, the noble D. Junius Brutus and the novus homo L. Munatius Plancus, of a reputable family from T

ture. Rumours came from NotesPage=>166 1 D. Brutus called him ‘ homo ventosissimus’ (Ad fam. 11, 9, 1); Cicero years b

rrel over a vote complimentary to Plancus, he described Servilius as ‘ homo furiosus’. 6 If a consul was required, what mor

they thought of their common taskmaster was never recorded. The novus homo of the revolutionary age and the heir of the Clau

y precluded from the highest distinction in the Free State. The novus homo might rise to the praetorship: to the consulate,

. 2 The origin of M. Lollius and of P. Silius is unknown. 3 A novus homo held the consulate as colleague of Quirinius in 1

ility that Lollius was really of noble extraction, adopted by a novus homo , cf. E. Groag, P-W XIII, 1378, on the mysterious

g dice with M. Vinicius and P. Silius. 2 Without his favour, no novus homo could have reached the consulate. Of the nobiles,

a pontifex at the age of twenty-five:1 he was a patrician. The novus homo Cicero had to wait until he became a senior consu

on and successful career of L. Passienus Rufus (cos. 4 B.C.), a novus homo , attests the influence of C. Sallustius Crispus.

tarch, Pompeius 34, 36 and 39; Dio37, 5, 4 f. 4 Sallust, BC 59, 6: ‘ homo militaris, quod amplius annos triginta tribunus a

most striking example of continuous service is afforded by the novus homo from Picenum, C. Poppaeus Sabinus (cos. A.D. 9)

before death by the governorship of Syria and after death. The novus homo from the small town of Lanuvium was accorded a pu

lius Dolabella, of ancient nobility. 5 The competent and sturdy novus homo C. Poppaeus Sabinus was legate of Moesia. 6 In Sy

marks of A. D. Nock, CAH x, 467. PageBook=>456 Not every novus homo , however, or provincial aristocrat was an exempla

tas and fides were supplanted by the vigour and industry of the novus homo . The opening of a career to talent, however, was

peius’ consuls Afranius and Gabinius. Cicero had been the great novus homo of that age: the family ended with his bibulous s

t name stood for the bluest blood. 8 The descendants of another novus homo , L. Nonius Asprenas (cos. suff. 36 B.C.), lasted

a constellation of characters no less vivid and detestable. The novus homo , avid and thrusting, stripped off all pretence in

mselves no mean part of it. The Roman patrician and the Italian novus homo alike had salvaged honour and fame, yet had done

del im römischen Staat’, Hermes LIX (1924), 450 ff. ——— ‘ Homo Novus’, Bonner Jahrbücher CXXXIV (1929), 54 ff

elios, 261, 265, 300. Alfenus Varus, P. (cos. suff. 39 B.C.), novus homo , 79, 93, 498; in the Cisalpina, 235; as a jurist,

. (cos, A.D. 14), 421, 496. Apronius, L. (cos. suff. A.D. 8), novus homo , 363, 434, 436. Aqueducts, Agrippa’s work, 241,

. Asturia, 332, 401. Ateius Capito, C. (cos. suff. A.D. 5), novus homo , 375; religious activities, 382; curator aquarum,

rium, 360. Bibulus, see Calpurnius. Billienus, C., remarkable novus homo , 81, 93. Birth, a qualification for office, 11,

), see Nerva, the Emperor. Coelius Caldus, C. (cos. 94 B.C.), a novus homo , 94. Cognomina, foreign, 84; adopted to show po

1. Didius, Q., Antonian, 266, 267. Didius, T. (cos. 98 B.C.), novus homo , 93, 94. Dignitas, 13, 25, 26, 35, 48, 70, 122,

n partisan, 242, 266, 498. Flavius Fimbria, C. (cos. 104 B.C.), novus homo , 94. Flavius Gallus, Antonian general, 264. Fla

d poet, 79, 251. Heracles, 263. Herennius, M. (cos. 93 B.C.), novus homo , 94. Herennius, M. (cos. suff. 34 B.C.), 92, 200,

irtius, A., from Ferentinum, 362. Hirtius, A. (cos. 43 B.C.), novus homo and Caesarian, 95; in 44 B.C., 97, 99 f., 102, 11

ii Silani, 382, 495. Junius Blaesus, Q. (cos. suff. A.D. 10), novus homo , 363, 404, 434, 437. Junius Brutus, L. (cos. 509

Labienus, T., orator and historian, 486, 489. Laelius, C., novus homo and friend of the Scipiones, 85. Lamus, fictitiou

, 193, 360, 361, 362, 383. Laronius, Q. (cos. suff. 33 B.C.), novus homo and admiral of Octavianus, 200, 237 f., 242, 328;

sman of Brutus, 198, 205. Licinius Murena, L. (cos. 62 B.C.), novus homo , 94. Licinius Nerva Silianus, A. (cos. suff. A.D.

f.; his wealth, 31, 195. Lucilius Longus (cos. suff. A.D. 7), novus homo and friend of Tiberius, 363, 434 f. Lucius Caes

redius, Augustan orator, 456. Murrius Umber, Mamius, Augustan novus homo , 361. Mussidius Pollianus, T., Augustan senator,

ian tribe, 223. Passienus Rufus, L. (cos. 4 B.C.), remarkable novus homo , 93, 362; relations with Sallustius Crispus, 384,

. Pergamum, 76, 262. Perperna, M. (cos. 130 B.C.), Etruscan novus homo , 85, 93. Perperna, M. (cos. 92 B.C.), his death,

, Marsian leader, 26, 87. Poppaeus Sabinus, C. (cos. A.D. 9), novus homo , 362, 434; legate of Moesia, 397, 437; his daught

499; origin, 362. Poppaeus Secundus, Q. (cos. suff. A.D. 9), novus homo , 362, 434; a bachelor, 452, 498. Populares, 11,

f, 15, 457 see also Army, Legions. Sosius, C. (cos. 32 B.C.), novus homo and Antonian partisan, 200, 267 f.; at Zacynthus,

acitus, see Cornelius. Tarius Rufus, L. (cos. suff. 16 B.C.), novus homo , 362, 373, 376, 397, 403, 425, 452, 498; at Actiu

nds Nursia, 210; with Sex. Pompeius, 228. Titedius Labeo, minor novus homo , 456. Titinius, partisan of Octavianus, 236.

s. 63 B.C.), early career and consulate, 24 f., 29 f., 32; as a novus homo , 11, 13, 94; relations with publicani, 14; with C

the Parthians, 223 f.; his triumph, 224, 231, 241; as a type of novus homo , 199 f.; nomenclature, 93, 200. PageBook=>56

Vettius Scato, impoverished Marsian, 91. Vibidius, disreputable novus homo , 456. Vibienus, C, obscure senator, 94. Vibii V

aps from Brixia, 363. Vibius Habitus, A. (cos. suff, A.D. 8), novus homo from Larinum, 362, 434, 498. Vibius Pansa Caetr

498. Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, C. (cos. 43 B.C.), Caesarian novus homo , 71; his name and origin, 71, 90; attitude in 44

ar descendants, 498. Vibius Postumus, C. (cos. suff. A.D. 5), novus homo from Larinum, 362, 434, 498; in Illyricum, 436.

(cos. suff. 5 B.C.), 375. Vinicius, M. (cos. suff. 19 B.C.), novus homo , his origin, 194, 362; in Gaul, 329, 339; perhaps

343, 448, 490, 512. Visellius Varro, C. (cos. suff. A.D. 12), novus homo , 363. Visidius, L., local magnate, 82; his orig