The Gracchi
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the Gracchi · ten children · two
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Consolation to Helvia
The children of Cornelia, including the famous Gracchi, most of whom died before her.
Fortune had reduced Cornelia from twelve children to two;
On the Shortness of Life
The Gracchus brothers, referenced as the source of the political reform tradition inherited by Livius Drusus.
Livius Drusus, a fierce and vehement man, after he had set in motion new laws and the mischief inherited from the Gracchi, hemmed in by a vast throng gathered from all Italy, and unable to foresee the outcome of his measures—which he could neither carry through nor was now free to abandon once begun—is said to have cursed his life, unquiet from its very beginning, and to have declared that he alon …