Gracchi

There were mothers then, as well as in the times of the Gracchi; there were wives as noble as the wife of Marcus Brutus.

The story of the Gracchi constitutes one of the strangest, grandest, and saddest stories in the whole course of history.

The effect of this law was certain to be the opposite of that sought by the agrarian laws of the two Gracchi.

The aristocracy first broke this rule by resorting to force to block the reforms of the Gracchi.

The patricians were willing to cede nothing to the Gracchi, and they were decimated by Marius.