saturnini

Updated: May 21, 2025

Hence the Gracchi and Saturnini, inflamers of the people; and hence Drusus vying, on behalf of the Senate, in popular concessions with these inflamers; and hence the corrupt promises made to our Italian allies, promises deceitfully made, or, by the interposition of some Tribune, defeated.

Cornelius Tacitus - The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; : With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola

And so then at Rome, when the people were distempered, and the government out of order, one or other was still raised to despotic power; no wonder, then, if Sylla reigned, when the Glauciae and Saturnini drove out the Metelli, when sons of consuls were slain in the assemblies, when silver and gold purchased men and arms, and fire and sword enacted new laws, and put down lawful opposition.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans