The novus homo had to tread warily. […] Billienus, ‘homo per se magnus’, who was nearly elected consul c. 105–100 (ib. 175), L. […] Vogt, Homo novus (Stuttgart, 1926), 19 ff. […] Flavius Fimbria, a novus homo (cos. 104) was certainly a partisan of Marius T. […] Junius Brutus and the novus homo L.