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en-wikipedia-org-9179		Optimates - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1959	245	59	The Optimates (/ˈɒptəmɪts/; Latin for "best ones", singular: optimas), also known as boni ("good men"), were a conservative political faction in the late Roman Republic. They disappeared with their defeat in the subsequent Civil War. While several leaders of the Optimates were patricians—belonging to the oldest noble families—such as Sulla or Scipio Nasica Serapio, many were plebeians: the Caecilii Metelli, Pompey, Cato the Younger, Titus Annius Milo, etc. It is important to realize that references to populares in the plural do not imply a co-ordinated 'party' with a distinctive ideological character, a kind of political grouping for which there is no evidence in Rome, but simply allude to a recognizable, if statistically quite rare, type of senator whose activities are scattered sporadically across late-Republic history[.] [...] The 'life-long' popularis [...] was a new and worrying phenomenon at the time of Julius Caesar's consulship of 59: an underlying reason why the man inspired such profound fears.[3]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9179.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9179.txt