Gracchan

The Gracchan crisis caused a divide in subsequent Roman politics between optimates, conservatives who opposed the Gracchan approach, and populares who supported it.

e. Domestic Strife 2001

However, because of the general atmosphere at that time — the opposition of my father — and the less ideal parts of the Gracchan program — nothing came of it.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Cossus, to silence? who the Gracchan family, or these two sons of the

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

C.nsular gentlemen L. Bestia, C. C.to, Sp. Albinus, and that excellent citizen L. Opimius, who killed Gracchus; of which he was acquitted by the people, though he had constantly sided against them, -- were all condemned by their judges, who were of the Gracchan party.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Gracchan land laws were akin to those of modern Australasia.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The character of the Gracchan reform is more accurately known, being mainly to promote the colonization of the public lands by small farmers in accordance with old laws which had been disregarded.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Gracchan jurors were to be over thirty and under sixty, while a large number of the military _equites_ were under the former limit of age, in consequence of the practice of retiring from the corps after the attainment of the quaestorship or selection into the senate.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

They had every chance of sharing in the local division of the spoils, and their voices swelled the chorus of approval with which the poorer classes everywhere received the Gracchan law.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

So good had the tenure seemed, that it had been accepted as security for debt, [351] and the Gracchan attack united for once the usually hostile ranks of mortgagers and mortgagees.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

The only important law of the period certainly proceeding from governmental circles, and dealing with a question that was novel, in the sense that it had not been heard of for a considerable number of years and had played no part in the Gracchan movements, was one passed by the consul Marcus Aemilius Scaurus.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885