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Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 9.
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Aulus Gellius relates two passages from the speech of C. Gracchus, which we think ought rather to be ascribed to Tib. Sempronius Gracchus. In one, he has stated the case of a young noble who caused a peasant to be murdered because he made a joke upon him as he passed in a litter; in the other, he told the story of a consul who ordered the most considerable men in the town of Teanum to be beaten with rods, because the consul’s wife, going to bathe, had found the baths of the town not clean. (Aulus Gellius, X. 3.)
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Appian, Civil Wars, I. 12.
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Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 16.
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Appian, Civil Wars, I. 13.
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Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 12.
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Machiavelli, Discourse on Titus Livius, I. 37.
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Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 16.
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Appian, Civil Wars, I. 14.
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Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 16, 22.
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Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 5.
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They interdicted to the magistrates deposed by the people the exercise of all functions, and authorised criminal proceedings against the magistrate who had been the author of the illegal banishment of a citizen. The first of these struck openly at Octavius, whom Tiberius had deposed; the second at Popilius, who, in his prætorship, had banished the friends of Tiberius. (Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 8.)
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Appian, Civil Wars, I. 21.
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“In 556, the curule ediles Fulvius Nobilior and Flaminius distributed to the people a million of modii of Sicilian wheat, at two ases the bushel.” (Titus Livius, XXXIII. 42.)
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Appian, Civil Wars, I. 21. – Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, III. 20.
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Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 7. According to what Polybius says, the period of service was fixed at ten years, for we read in Plutarch: “Caius Gracchus said to the censors that, obliged only by the law to ten campaigns, he had made twelve.” (Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 4.)
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Fifth Period. – Roman Colonies.
Dertona (630). In Liguria, now Tortona.
Fabrateria (630). Among the Volsci (Latium Majus). Now Falvaterra. A colony of the Gracchi.
Aquæ Sextiæ (631); Aix (Mouths of the Rhone). Cited erroneously as a colony, was only a castellum.
Minervia (Scylacium) (632). In Calabria, now Squillace. A colony of the Gracchi.
Neptunia (Tarentum) (632). In Calabria, now Taranto. A colony of the Gracchi.
Carthago (Junonia). In Africa. A colony of the Gracchi, was only commenced.
Narbo Martius (636). In Narbonnese Gaul, now Narbonne. Founded under the influence of the Gracchi.
Eporedia (654). In Transpadane Gaul, now Ivrea.
In this period Rome ceases to found Latin colonies. The allied countries and the towns of the Latin name began to demand the right of city; the assimilation of Italy, in respect to language and manners, is indeed so advanced that it is superfluous, if not dangerous, to found new Latin cities.
The name of Colonies of the Gracchi is given to those which were established essentially for the aid of the poor citizens, and no longer, as formerly, with a strategic view.
Carthage and Narbonne are the first two colonies founded beyond the limits of Italy, contrary to the rule previously followed. The only example which could be mentioned as appertaining to the previous period is that of Italica, founded in Spain by Scipio in 548, for those of his veterans who wished to remain in the country. They received the right of city, but not the title of colony. The inhabitants of Aquæ Sextiæ must have been in much the same situation.
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Velleius Paterculus, II. 6, 15. – Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 7, 8.
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Appian, Civil Wars, I. 19 et seq.
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