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
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
TIBERIUS GRACCHUS - PART I
Octavius … set himself in opposition to Tiberius and staved off the passage of the law.
— Plutarch
ROME: A BRIEF CIVICS LESSON
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
— Livy
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
THE FORUM BOARIUM
[They] were brought alive underground in the Forum Boarium, in a place surrounded by stones, already for years impregnated with the blood of human victims.
— Livy