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 serve in the Roman Senate or, more specifically, to be elected as consul. When a man entered public life on an unprecedented scale for a high communal office, then the term used was novus civis (plural:novi cives) or "new citizen".[1]
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Novushomo or homonovus (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...
political strategy of cooperation. No contemporary definition of nobilis or novushomo (a person entering the nobility) exists; Mommsen, positively referenced...
become consul at 42. Cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novushomo ('new man'; comparable to a "self-made man") who became consul even though...
one's personal acta but also those of one's ancestors. However Cicero, a novushomo, asserted that virtus was a virtue particularly suited to the new man...
privileges. In the later Republic, one who became noble was termed a novushomo (English: new man), an unusual achievement. Two of the most famous examples...
commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the Rhine and Danube frontiers. A novushomo, he was consul three times. Frontinus ably discharged several important...
first of his family to rise to the rank of consul thereby making him a novushomo. He received the agnomen Achaicus for his victories over the Achaean League...
class's growing political power. Cicero was both an Italian eques and a novushomo, but more importantly he was a Roman constitutionalist. His social class...
gentlemen of old are now the trash". In the Roman Republic, the term novushomo ('new man') carried similar connotations.[citation needed] One can define...
the grandson of Decimus Laelius, plebeian tribune in 54 BC, and thus a novushomo. Balbus was one of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis who organized the...
Gnaeus Mallius Maximus was a Roman politician and general. A novushomo ("new man"), Mallius was elected to the consulship of the Roman Republic in 105...
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praetor for 62 BC. Marcus Tullius Cicero is senior consul. He is the first novushomo (new man) to be elected to the consulship in 31 years. Gaius Antonius...
an ancestor who had risen to the consulship through his own merit (see novushomo, "new man"). In modern usage, "nobility" is applied to the highest social...
noble nor patrician. A further hindrance was that the last memorable novushomo ("new man") to have been elected consul without consular ancestors had...
Cannae. Now proconsul and unwilling to cooperate with his superior, the novushomo consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, Caepio, eager for glory, provoked a battle...
"circulation of elites" Meritocracy, or political order "open to talents" Novushomo Peerage Promotion (rank) Social mobility Lyczkowski, Jury. "Ennoblement"...
senior commander of the combined armies. However, because Maximus was a novushomo and therefore lacked the noble background of the Roman aristocracy – in...
values, and materialistic types”. Russian oligarch NEPman New Soviet man Novushomo Russian Mafia Oligarchy Gopnik Nouveau riche Костомаров В. Г. Языковой...
family to hold the consulship, such as Marius or Cicero, was known as a novushomo ("new man") and ennobled his descendants. Patrician ancestry, however...
Carthaginians is made censor with Lucius Cornelius Scipio. The election of a novushomo (i.e. the first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate or be elected...
Lucius Passienus Rufus was a Roman senator and a novushomo of some oratorical talent. He was consul in 4 BC as the colleague of Gaius Calvisius Sabinus...
his early career in Rome show the difficulties that faced a "new man" (novushomo) in being accepted into the stratified upper echelons of Roman society...
descended from Cato the Elder – this Cato's great-grandfather – who was a novushomo ("new man") and the first of the family to be elected to the consulship...
superior officer, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, because he thought of him as a novushomo, deciding by himself to engage in battle against the Cimbri, on the Rhone...
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