honorum

The young hero has an inauspicious beginning, turns it to his benefit through pluck and luck, then begins the cursus honorum of the sea: sailor, midshipman, lieutenant, captain, admiral, commemorative 30th-anniversary boxed set, remainder pile, deliquescence.

At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line Steve Donoghue 2011

Was it anything more than reaching the top of the cursus honorum?

Cameron’s big idea is simple: he doesn’t need one 2010

Rursum Romae anno 78, Sulla mortuo, Caesar cursum honorum coepit.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Now that’s how you deal with pirates. 2009

Mr. Smith does not go to Washington out of nowhere: politicians undergo a long cursus honorum before they are known and respected enough to be viable candidates.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

At that time, surveying the field of governors, congressmen, senators, and generals making their way through the cursus honorum, there didn't seem to be any plausible Black candidates on their way.

"Make no mistake, Mr Obama is a once-in-a-generation possibility." Ann Althouse 2008

Theologastri (solvant modo) satis superque docti, per omnes honorum gradus evehuntur et ascendunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

He needs to give the country a sense that he wants to be Prime Minister for a reason other than that it is the top of the cursus honorum.

Can the Tories win from this far behind? 2007

He needs to give the country a sense that he wants to be Prime Minister for a reason other than that it is the top of the cursus honorum.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

He needs to give the country a sense that he wants to be Prime Minister for a reason other than that it is the top of the cursus honorum.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

Vel honorum desperatione vel malorum perpessione fracti el fatigati, plures violentas manus sibi inferunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007