person
Novius
also: Novius
A freedman's son turned magistrate who boasts of outranking another freedman's son; Horace's example of the social climber preening on hollow distinctions.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.6 colleague Novius
A freedman's son turned magistrate who plumes himself on outranking another of the same origin; Horace's image of empty social vanity. (Not the Novius of Satire 1.3.)
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