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The Quaestorship was the first in the course of Roman honors. It might be entered upon at the age of twenty-four. Salvium Titianum. Brother of the Emperor Otho. See His. B. 1 and 2. pass. For the office of Proconsul, &c., see note, His. 1, 49. Parata peccantibus. Ready for wicked rulers, i.e. affording great facilities for extortion in its corrupt and servile population.
"I thought", he said, in one of his speeches afterwards introducing with a quiet humour, and with all a practised orator's skill, one of those personal anecdotes which relieve a long speech "I thought in my heart, at the time, that the people at Rome must be talking of nothing but my quaestorship". And he goes on to tell his audience how he was undeceived.
There it was pointed out, that as far back as 200 B.C., Cicero represented Cato as saying: "To begin with, I have always remained a member of a 'Club. Clubs, as you know, were established in my quaestorship on the reception of the Magna Mater from Ida. So I used to dine at their feast with members of my club on the whole with moderation."
The family clique that filled the agrarian commission was to snatch at other offices; Gracchus's brother, a youth still unqualified even for the quaestorship, was to be thrust into the tribunate, and his father-in-law Appius was destined for the consulate. Rome was to be ruled by a dynasty, and the tyranny of the commission was to extend to every department of the State.
While wrestling with himself as to whether he should seek the quaestorship, his fevered mind had conjured up a vision. The phantom of his brother had appeared and addressed him in these words "Why dost thou linger, Caius? It is not given thee to draw back. One life, one death is fated for us both, as defenders of the people's rights."
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