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Updated: May 29, 2025
Even the multitude of the capital, who, although having no objection to a street-riot, found it inconvenient to have their houses set on fire over their heads, became in some measure alarmed. It is remarkable that in this very year the full re-establishment of the Sempronian corn-largesses took place, and was effected by the senate on the proposal of Cato.
In the rejection of the proposal to admit the Latins to the franchise it had been demonstrated with decisive clearness that the multitude in fact never voted for Gracchus, but always simply for itself. The aristocracy conceived the plan of offering battle to the author of the corn-largesses and land-assignations on his own ground. Rival Demagogism of the Senate The Livian Laws
Even the multitude of the capital, who, although having no objection to a street-riot, found it inconvenient to have their houses set on fire over their heads, became in some measure alarmed. It is remarkable that in this very year the full re-establishment of the Sempronian corn-largesses took place, and was effected by the senate on the proposal of Cato.
The constant influx of persons brought by the corn-largesses to Rome was, if not wholly stopped, at least very materially restricted by the conversion of these largesses into a provision for the poor limited to a fixed number.
The constant influx of persons brought by the corn-largesses to Rome was, if not wholly stopped, at least very materially restricted by the conversion of these largesses into a provision for the poor limited to a fixed number.
In the rejection of the proposal to admit the Latins to the franchise it had been demonstrated with decisive clearness that the multitude in fact never voted for Gracchus, but always simply for itself. The aristocracy conceived the plan of offering battle to the author of the corn-largesses and land-assignations on his own ground. Rival Demagogism of the Senate The Livian Laws
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