tumultuator

Updated: May 2, 2025

The mixture of simplicity and art removes him at once from Cato's bald literalism and Cicero's egotism. It was, however, in impassioned attack that Gracchus rose to his highest tones. The terms Gracchi impetum, tumultuator Gracchus, among the Latin critics, and similar ones from Plutarch and Dio among the Greeks, attest the main character of his eloquence.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius