Homme de synthèse

"Nerva was, it would seem, the ultimate "committee" man. He was not, apparently, a great orator, and one has the impression that he functioned better in small groups. [...]

What is well-known today, however, is that, more often than not, if the "super committee man" takes on an important administrative job, the result is quite dreadful." 

Murison, Charles Leslie. "M. Cocceius Nerva and the Flavians". Transactions of the American Philological Association vol. 133 (n°1), 2003 p. 155

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