Novus homo

sent two legions to support Tigranes, but he also had to defend Syria from Volo Jesus, and he was spread thinly, so he asked Nero to send him a general to take over the Armenian operations, and the guy that Nero sent was Sassinius Paedas, former consul who was presently the governor of Cappadocia, or...

Modern Turkey, Novus Homo, no homo.

No.

Not that there's anything wrong

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Who had reached the consulship, which was a big deal.

Not many Novus Homos.

I think Cicero was maybe the first Novus Homo from

And I mean that socially more than geographically.

The Romans had a word for a man like that, Novus Homo, a new man, the first in his family to claw his way into Roman politics.

And I want to be careful here because there's a legend that Marius came from a dirt poor peasant stock.

And that's mostly Plutarch being Plutarch.