The novus homo had to tread warily. […] There are plenty of odd but significant examples of the ‘homo novus parvusque senator’ (Bell. […] 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.