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Ten minutes afterwards the baron entered his apartment, and Peppino stationed himself on the bench outside the door of the hotel, after having whispered something in the ear of one of the descendants of Marius and the Gracchi whom we noticed at the beginning of the chapter, who immediately ran down the road leading to the Capitol at his fullest speed.
Mrs H. was hard upon him at first; and put him through a rigid catechism in reference to a certain vote he had given, which she had found it necessary, as the mother of the modern Gracchi, to deprecate in a line by itself, set up expressly for the purpose in German text.
'You sleep here to-night, and go on in the morning, I suppose, ma'am? said Martin. 'Where should I go on to? cried the mother of the modern Gracchi. 'To New Thermopylae. 'My! ain't I there? said Mrs Hominy. Martin looked for it all round the darkening panorama; but he couldn't see it, and was obliged to say so. 'Why that's it! cried Mrs Hominy, pointing to the sheds just mentioned.
Ah, believe me, ye Gracchi, ye Acephali, ye Levelers, it is something worth seeing, be sure; whether beheld at Babylon the Tremendous, when Nebuchadnezzar was crowned; at old Scone in the days of Macbeth; at Rheims, among Oriflammes, at the coronation of Louis le Grand; at Westminster Abbey, when the gentlemanly George doffed his beaver for a diadem; or under the soft shade of palm trees on an isle in the sea.
Among the friends and opponents of the Gracchi were many orators whose names are given by Cicero with the minute care of a sympathising historian; but as few, if any, remains of their speeches exist, it can serve no purpose to recount the list. Three celebrated names may be mentioned as filling up the interval between C. Gracchus and M. Antonius.
The charge against them is that they are revolutionists, rebels against the Emperor, and partisans of a rival. Now we may note three things about the charge. First, it comes with a very distinct taint of insincerity from Jews, who were, to say the least, not remarkable for loyalty or peaceful obedience. The Gracchi are complaining of sedition!
Did you get your cap or whatever they call it College colours, you know?" "Oh, cricket!" said Robin indifferently. "No, I didn't play. The chaps at King's who ran the games were rather outers pretty thoroughly barred by the decent men. None of the 'Gracchi' went in for the sports." "Oh!" said Harry, considerably surprised. "And who the deuce are the 'Gracchi'?"
We have followed the transformation of the outward relations of Rome and the Romano-Hellenic world generally in its leading outlines, from the battle of Pydna to the period of the Gracchi, from the Tagus and the Bagradas to the Nile and the Euphrates.
Caius Cornelius seems to have been a man honest and eager in his purpose to save the Republic from the greed of the oligarchs, but as had been the Gracchi ready in his eagerness to push his own authority too far in his attempt to restrain that of the Senate.
Family policy and demagogism carried on a similar and equally dangerous rivalry in patronizing and worshipping the rabble. Gaius Flaminius was regarded by the statesmen of the following generation as the initiator of that course from which proceeded the reforms of the Gracchi and we may add the democratico-monarchical revolution that ensued.
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