person
Lucius Opimius
Opimius
also: L. Opimius
Lucius Opimius, consul of 121 BC who crushed Gaius Gracchus under the senate's emergency decree; he headed the commission that partitioned Numidia and was bought by Jugurtha.
Reading notes
- The Jugurthine War §16 Lucius Opimius
Consul of 121 BC who destroyed Gaius Gracchus and his followers under the senate's emergency decree; now the bribed head of the commission that partitioned Numidia.