The nobilitas did not, it is true, stand like a solid rampart to bar all intruders. […] The Equites belonged, it is true, to the same social class as the great bulk of the senators: the contrast lay in rank and prestige. […] Brutus came to feel shame for his own disloyalty: he composed a pamphlet in honour of the Republican who died true to his principles and to his class. […] On‘Poppaedius’, the true form (not ‘Pompaedius’), cf. […] Possibly true of Pinarius, most unlikely for Pedius, cf.