Novus homo or homo novus (lit. 'new man'; pl.: novi homines or homines novi) was the term in ancient Rome for a man who was the first in his family to...

of the plebeian gens Octavia. Not being of senatorial rank, he was a novus homo ("new man") at Rome. His grandfather, Gaius Octavius, fought as a military...

political strategy of cooperation. No contemporary definition of nobilis or novus homo (a person entering the nobility) exists; Mommsen, positively referenced...

one's personal acta but also those of one's ancestors. However Cicero, a novus homo, asserted that virtus was a virtue particularly suited to the new man...

gentlemen of old are now the trash". In the Roman Republic, the term novus homo ('new man') carried similar connotations.[citation needed] One can define...

commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the Rhine and Danube frontiers. A novus homo, he was consul three times. Frontinus ably discharged several important...

privileges. In the later Republic, one who became noble was termed a novus homo (English: new man), an unusual achievement. Two of the most famous examples...

become consul at 42. Cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novus homo ('new man'; comparable to a "self-made man") who became consul even though...

time of Vipsania's marriage to Haterius he was far older than her and a novus homo (meaning that no other man in his family had ever been a consul before...

praetor for 62 BC. Marcus Tullius Cicero is senior consul. He is the first novus homo (new man) to be elected to the consulship in 31 years. Gaius Antonius...

first of his family to rise to the rank of consul thereby making him a novus homo. He received the agnomen Achaicus for his victories over the Achaean League...

noble nor patrician. A further hindrance was that the last memorable novus homo ("new man") to have been elected consul without consular ancestors had...

appointed him consul suffectus on the last day of December 45 BC. Rebilus, a novus homo of the late Republic, served with Julius Caesar throughout the Gallic...

class's growing political power. Cicero was both an Italian eques and a novus homo, but more importantly he was a Roman constitutionalist. His social class...

"Antony – 34". Roman Lives. Wylie, G.J. (1993). "P. Ventidius – from novus homo to 'military hero'". Acta Classica. 36 (1): 129–141. hdl:10520/EJC24734...

he refuses to give them a raise. Covetousness Hypergamy Nouveau riche Novus homo Snobbery Social mobility Yuppie Weir, Robert E. (2007). Class in America:...

Carthaginians is made censor with Lucius Cornelius Scipio. The election of a novus homo (i.e. the first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate or be elected...

military tribune and quaestor. He was elected as a consul in 242 BC, a novus homo. His colleague as consul was Aulus Postumius Albinus. In addition to the...

Gnaeus Mallius Maximus was a Roman politician and general. A novus homo ("new man"), Mallius was elected to the consulship of the Roman Republic in 105...

an ancestor who had risen to the consulship through his own merit (see novus homo, "new man"). In modern usage, "nobility" is applied to the highest social...

Roman citizenship during the reign of Emperor Claudius. Pompeianus was a novus homo ("new man") as he was the first member of his family to be appointed as...

to Dickens's child in company with Count D'Orsay and accordingly the novus homo glories in the praenomia Alfred d'Orsay Tennyson Dickens ... You observe...

the grandson of Decimus Laelius, plebeian tribune in 54 BC, and thus a novus homo. Balbus was one of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis who organized the...

senior commander of the combined armies. However, because Maximus was a novus homo and therefore lacked the noble background of the Roman aristocracy – in...

"circulation of elites" Meritocracy, or political order "open to talents" Novus homo Peerage Promotion (rank) Social mobility Lyczkowski, Jury. "Ennoblement"...

Cannae. Now proconsul and unwilling to cooperate with his superior, the novus homo consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, Caepio, eager for glory, provoked a battle...

values, and materialistic types”. Russian oligarch NEPman New Soviet man Novus homo Russian Mafia Oligarchy Gopnik Nouveau riche Костомаров В. Г. Языковой...

Terentii, Terentia probably married him because Cicero was an up-and-coming novus homo (new man) with a promising political career. She married Cicero in a sine...

his early career in Rome show the difficulties that faced a "new man" (novus homo) in being accepted into the stratified upper echelons of Roman society...

descended from Cato the Elder – this Cato's great-grandfather – who was a novus homo ("new man") and the first of the family to be elected to the consulship...