Strangely enough, Ennius once penned a character sketch (from a fragment of the orginal work, probably preserved in Cicero's writing) of the perfect noder: or was it the ideal Roman? Whatever.
“…a learned, trusty, winsome man and a fine talker, content with his own, happy and shrewd; one who spoke the right thing at the right time, and obliging; of few words; keeping many old-time ways of which a bygone age long buried is the maker, and manners old and new; keeping also to the modes of many a one of our elders, and the laws too of gods and men; one who could prudently speak out hearsay or keep it to himself.”
And you thought the Classics had nothing left to teach us. (Translation by E. H. Warmington)