Gracchus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Later Roman statesman cited as favored by divine help
But if they take thought for those who dwell, as it were, in a kind of great island which we call the orb of the earth, they take thought also for those who hold the parts of that island, Europe, Asia, Africa.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman commander who died in Lucania fighting for Rome.
Spain would not have seen the Scipios falling for their country in a single war, nor Cannae Paulus and Geminus, Venusia Marcellus, Litana Albinus, Lucania Gracchus.
De Pallio
Roman figure associated with an ill-omened episode in Carthage's history.
But to you, after the benefit of an injury — once you were exempted from senility rather than from your eminence — after the obscene omens of Gracchus and the violent mockeries of Lepidus, after the triple altars of Pompey and the long delays of Caesar, when Statilius Taurus set the walls in place and Sentius Saturninus proclaimed the solemnities — when concord brings its pleasure — the toga was offered.