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29 April 2019
Homo novus was a disrespectful term used in ancient Rome for people who, for the first time in a family, took office enabling them to sit in the senate .
Such homo novus was, for example, Gaius Marius and Marcus Tullius Cicero to whom, despite the respect he enjoyed, he was often reminded a non-senatorial origin.
Already in antiquity, the term homo novus became synonymous of the upstart.
Sources Kumaniecki Kazimierz, Cyceron i jego współcześni , Warszawa 1989
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