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 * **__Nobilitas__** in Cicero's Philippics(44 through 43 BC)- speech 2, chapter 15
 * Cicero's Philippics were based on Demosthenes' philippics, which were fiery speeches delivered to condemn a political figure
 * Cicero made these Philippics condemning Mark Anthony
 * __**How and Why is nobilitas important today?-**__Nowadays, nobility is used in two different ways. It's used to mean moral excellence, which is highly praised today as well as in Ancient Rome. Nobility can also mean grandeur or magnificence, such as people of high class in society. In Roman society,the nobilitas were an exclusive circle of patrician and distinguished plebeian families that arose in the Roman Republic toward the beginning of the third century B.C. Traditionally, the highest state offices were filled by members of the nobilitas. Both meaning of the word nobility are highly praised and honored in both present day and Ancient Rome.

__**Latin: **__ Illos ego praestantissimos viros, lumina rei publicae, vivere volebam, tot consulares, tot praetorios, tot honestissimos senatores, omnem praeterea florem nobilitas ac iuventutis, tum optimorum civium exercitus; qui si viverent, quamvis iniqua condicione pacis - mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior videbatur - rem publicam hodie teneremus.

__**Translation: **__ I wish to live among those most outstanding men, the lights of the republic, so many consuls, so many praetorians, so many very honest senators, beside the foliage of nobility and youths, then the army of the highest citizens. If anyone were to live, although with an unjust condition of peace - indeed for me all peace with citizens seem more useful than civil war - today we might uphold a republic.