Assertion: cicero | /r/HasProperty | the son of a knight
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text: If Verres advanced his career by means of his strategic treachery, Cicero, the son of a knight (eques) and hence a so-called "new man" (homo novus), that is, someone without senatorial ancestors in the family, invested in a superb education as a means of getting ahead.10