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Three hundred in all were slain in the fray. Thus was shed the first blood that flowed in civil strife at Rome. It was a crimson prelude to the streams of blood that were to follow, in the long series of butcheries which were afterwards to disgrace the Roman name. Tiberius Gracchus may well be called the Great, for the effect of his life upon the history of Rome was stupendous.
The Carthaginians seeing Gracchus now bereft of support, endeavoured to take him alive; but he having descried his Lucanian host among the enemy, rushed with such fury into their dense body that it became impossible to save his life without a great loss.
'That, I believe, rejoined Gracchus, 'is nearly the truth. When wearied by a prolonged conversation, we sought the repose of our pillows; each one of us happier by a large and overflowing measure than but two days before we had ever thought to be again. The city is to all appearance tranquil and acquiescent under its bitter chastisement. The outward aspect is calm and peaceful.
Death of Gracchus The senate assembled in the temple of Fidelity, close by the temple of Jupiter; the bitterest opponents of Gracchus spoke in the sitting; when Tiberius moved his hand towards his forehead to signify to the people, amidst the wild tumult, that his head was in danger, it was said that he was already summoning the people to adorn his brow with the regal chaplet.
The rich, and all who have been enabled to subsist upon their own stores, are now engaged in distributing what remains among the poorer sort, who are now thrown upon their compassion. May it not be, that I am to be a witness of a people dying of hunger! Gracchus and Fausta are busily employed in relieving the wants of the suffering. We have waited impatiently to hear the fate of the Queen.
He could ask the crowd where he should fly, whether to the Capitol dripping with a brother's blood, or to the home where the widowed mother sat in misery and tears; and no one thought that this was a mere figure of speech. It all seemed real, because Gracchus was a true artist as well as a true man, and knew by an unerring instinct when to pause.
Cincinnatus now signalled for the fighting to cease, and, meeting those who came to ask on what terms he would spare their lives, said, "Give me Gracchus and your other chiefs bound. As for you, you can have your lives on one condition.
III. I. Comparison between Carthage and Rome IV. X. Proscription-Lists III. III. Autonomy, III. VII. the State of Culture in Spain, III. XII. Coins and Moneys III. XII. Coins and Moneys III. XIII. Increase of Amusements This was a cheap dwelling. III. I. Comparison between Carthage and Rome IV. II. Tribunate of Gracchus
This idea unquestionably made the leader of the moment the practical head of the State during any crisis that called for constant intervention on the part of the Comitia; but there is no reason to suppose a belief on the part of Gracchus that such intervention would be unremittingly demanded, would become as integral a part of the every-day mechanism of government as the senate's direction of the provinces or the knight's control of the courts.
The condition of Cæsarism is the control of physical force; Gaius Gracchus fell because he had not that essential control. The oligarchy remained supreme. The plans of Gracchus for planting colonies and distributing allotments were nullified. The evils of slave labour multiplied, and issued in servile insurrections. In Numidia, the able Masimissa had been succeeded by Micipsa.
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