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Usage examples of "honorum".
Probably the dead father had left the family too poor to enable the son to try for the cursus honorum.
He has served the state through all the ranks of the cursus honorum and I note, with some amusement, that when he was a quaestor he presented games dedicated to Honour and Virtue!
You may be hoping for further advancement in the cursus honorum - surely two ex-consuls must be hoping for governorships?