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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
Tiberius Gracchus
also: Ti. Gracchus
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (d. 133 BC), reforming tribune killed by senators who charged him with seeking a kingship; Memmius invokes his death as the first of the nobility's judicial murders.
Reading notes
- The Jugurthine War §31 Tiberius Gracchus
Tribune killed in 133 BC on the charge of aiming at kingship; Memmius makes his death the first of the nobility's judicial murders of the plebs's champions.