Sergius Catilina, a noble and a patrician: ‘quod non dignos homines honore honestatos videbam’ (BC 35, 3); ‘M. […] Note the brothers Caepasii, ‘ignoti homines et repentini small-town orators who became quaestors (Cicero, Brutus 242), C. […] nosti optime homines. ’ 7 P-W VII, 1817 ff. […] He was correct but other novi homines, socially more eminent, had not been debarred in that period; and Cicero was soon to witness the consulates of Murena and of Pompeius’ men, Afranius and Gabinius. 3 After that, no more novi homines as consuls on the Fasti of the Free State, but an effulgence of historic names, ominous of the end. 4 Caesar’s Dictatorship meant the curbing of the oligarchy, promotion for merit. […] Five of them were nobiles, with patricians in high and striking relief. 6 The four novi homines were all signalized by military service in Gaul. 7 NotesPage=>094 1 For examples, P.