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Nobilitas --A female figure standing, with a lance in one hand and the palladium in the other.

This type, on a silver medal of Geta, indicates by the attribute of the spear, and the image of Minerva, the two means (valour in war, wisdom in council.) by which nobility was or ought to be acquired. Commodus, the descendant of Emperors, might rightly claim to the highest distinctions of hereditary rank, though he disgraced his illustrious birth by every vice; but the nobility of Geta's father was that of a novus homo, the first great man of his family, and therefore not fit matter for the self glorification on the part of a younger son.