Gaius Gracchus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Gaius · Gracchus · the latter · the son
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman tribune whose actions against the commonwealth are cited as an example of greater vice compared to his father and to Drusus.
Shall I compare your grandfather Drusus with Gaius Gracchus, nearly his contemporary?
they are relieved of vices, relieved of errors — unless perhaps you think that Tiberius Gracchus the father was not happier than the son, when the one strove to establish the commonwealth, the other to overthrow it.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman tribune known for the corn-law (lex frumentaria) and public largesses, criticized for hypocrisy.
\" Yes, and Gaius Gracchus too, when he had made the greatest largesses and drained the treasury, yet in words defended the treasury.
Consolation to Marcia
Roman tribune and reformer, son of Cornelia, killed in political violence like his brother Tiberius.
but Tiberius and Gaius—whom even one who would deny them good men will admit were great—she saw both slain and unburied.
On Benefits
Roman tribune credited by Seneca as the first, with Livius Drusus, to institute the practice of sorting callers into tiers of access.
2 Among us, first of all, Gaius Gracchus and presently Livius Drusus established the practice of separating their throng and receiving some in secret, others with many, others all together.