Tiberius Gracchus
historical figure · 6 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Gracchus · Tiberius
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Roman tribune whose death and policies split Roman politics into factions.
For, as you see, the death of Tiberius Gracchus, and indeed before that the whole purpose of his tribunate, has divided one people into two parts;
in Asia Tiberius Gracchus persevered toward the citizens, but neglected the rights and treaties of the allies and of the Latin name.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman political figure invoked in Cotta's hypothetical mental image of a political scene on the Capitol.
Thus, when I seem to see Tiberius Gracchus haranguing on the Capitol and bringing forward the voting-urn against Marcus Octavius, I call that an empty motion of the mind;
But you, Etruscans and barbarians, hold the right of the auspices of the Roman people and can be interpreters of our elections?
When Tiberius Gracchus, consul for the second time, was holding the election of these men, the first teller, as he reported them, suddenly dropped dead on the spot.
Lucullus
Roman tribune and popular reformer, used as the explicit analogy for Arcesilas's disruption of established philosophy.
and they say that those two most wise and illustrious brothers, Publius Crassus and Publius Scaevola, were the authors of laws for Tiberius Gracchus — the one openly, as we see, the other more obscurely, as men suspect.
When the most weighty schools of philosophy had now been established, was there not one who arose — as in the best-ordered commonwealth a Tiberius Gracchus to throw the public peace into confusion, so an Arcesilas to overthrow established philosophy, and to take refuge in the authority of those who had denied that anything could be known or perceived?
Tusculan Disputations
Roman political figure opposed by Scipio the pontifex maximus
To me not even that Scipio the pontifex maximus, who declared this saying of the Stoics to be true — that the wise man is never a private man — seems to have been angry with Tiberius Gracchus then, when he left the languishing consul and himself, a private man, as if he were consul, bade those who wished the commonwealth to be safe follow him.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman tribune.
Plutarch in his life of Tiberius Gracchus says that nothing is so sacred and inviolable, as divine offerings:
Consolation to Marcia
Roman tribune and reformer, son of Cornelia, killed in political violence.
but Tiberius and Gaius—whom even one who would deny them good men will admit were great—she saw both slain and unburied.