Nobiles

The nobiles (sg. nobilis) were members of a social rank in the Roman Republic indicating that one was "well known".^[1] This may have changed over time: in Cicero's time, one was notable if one descended from a person who had been elected consul.^[2] In earlier periods and more broadly, this may have included a larger group consisting of those who were patricians, were descended from patricians who had become plebeians via transitio ad plebem, or were descended from plebeians who had held curule offices.^[3]

^ Brunt 1982, p. 11.
^ Brunt 1982, p. 1.
^ Brunt 1982, p. 1. The curule offices were those of dictator, magister equitum, censor, consul, praetor, and curule aedile.

[FOOTNOTEBrunt198211-1] Brunt 1982, p. 11.

[FOOTNOTEBrunt19821-2] Brunt 1982, p. 1.

[3] Brunt 1982, p. 1. The curule offices were those of dictator, magister equitum, censor, consul, praetor, and curule aedile.

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