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| Form: lit. "those belonging to the best or noblest". | |
| At Rome, in the last century of the Republic, this title was borne by the adherents of the "best" men in a political sense (i.e. the conservatives), working in the interests of the Senate and the aristocracy of office (nobiles, see |
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