TIBERIUS GRACCHUS - PART III
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TIBERIUS GRACCHUS - PART III

When Gracchus wanted to be reelected as tribune, he was killed on the Capitol by the optimates, led by Publius Cornelius Nasica. Gracchus was first hit by a piece of a chair, and with those who perished in this fight, he was thrown in the river, without funeral.

— Livy

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TIBERIUS GRACCHUS - PART II
ROMAN REPUBLIC Rich Cole ROMAN REPUBLIC Rich Cole

TIBERIUS GRACCHUS - PART II

For now there sprang up in the palace of the kings of Rome a monstrous growth of wickedness, to the end, it may well be believed, that the people might, for hatred of kingship and its way, come the earlier to love liberty.

— Livy

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HAIL, CAESAR!
ROMAN REPUBLIC Rich Cole ROMAN REPUBLIC Rich Cole

HAIL, CAESAR!

When the pirates demanded twenty talents for his ransom, he laughed at them for not knowing who their captive was, and of his own accord agreed to give them fifty.

— Plutarch

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