The noble was a landed proprietor, great or small. […] A small party, zealous for reform or rather, perhaps, from hostility to Scipio Aemilianus put up the tribune Ti. […] Cicero, a knight’s son from a small town, succumbed to his talents and his ambition. […] The Liberators departed from Rome early in April, and took refuge in the small towns in the neighbourhood of the capital. […] Octavianus’ mother came from the small town of Aricia!