Gracchus, Tiberius
Gracchus, Tiberius (Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus),elder brother of the preceding and son of Tiberius Sempronious Gracchus (consul 177) and Cornelia (daughter of Scipio Africanus), served at Carthage under his cousin Scipio Aemilianus, who married his sister. As quaestor in Spain (137 BC), he used his father's connections to save the army of Gaius Hostilius Mancinus by a treaty later disowned by the senate on Scipio's motion. Thus attacked in his fides (good faith) he joined a group hostile to Scipio: his father-in-law Appius Claudius Pulcher, princeps senatus (designated senior senator) and augur; the consul for 133 Publius Mucius Scaevola and his brother Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus, both eminent lawyers and pontifices (see priests). As tribune 133, in Scipio's absence, he proposed, with their aid and advice, a law designed to...
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