Plutarch, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, Caius.5.1

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[1] τῶν δὲ νόμων οὓς εἰσέφερε τῷ δήμῳ χαριζόμενος καὶ καταλύων τὴν σύγκλητον, ὁ μὲν ἦν κληρουχικὸς ἀνανέμων¹ τοῖς πένησι τὴν δημοσίαν, ὁ δὲ στρατιωτικός ἐσθῆτά τε κελεύων δημοσίᾳ χορηγεῖσθαι καὶ μηδὲν εἰς τοῦτο τῆς μισθοφορᾶς ὑφαιρεῖσθαι τῶν στρατευομένων, καὶ νεώτερον ἐτῶν ἑπτακαίδεκα μὴ καταλέγεσθαι στρατιώτην δὲ συμμαχικός ἰσοψήφους ποιῶν τοῖς πολίταις τοὺς Ἰταλιώτας.

Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. Plutarch. Cambridge, MA. 1921.

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Tιβέριος καὶ Γάιος Γράκχοι (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. X. Perrin, Bernadotte, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921.)

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Tiberius and Caius Gracchus Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. X. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921.) — Tiberius.5.1 focus

[1] After this campaign he was elected quaestor, and had the fortune to serve in a war against Numantia under the consul Caius Mancinus,¹ who was not bad as a man, but most unfortunate of the Romans as a general. Therefore in the midst of unexpected misfortunes and adverse circumstances not only did the sagacity and bravery of Tiberius shine forth all the more, but also—and this was astonishing—the great respect and honour in which he held his commander, who, under the pressure of disasters, forgot even that he was a general.

[1] Of the laws which he proposed by way of gratifying the people and overthrowing the senate, one was agrarian, and divided the public land among the poor citizens; another was military, and ordained that clothing should be furnished to the soldiers at the public cost, that nothing should be deducted from their pay to meet this charge, and that no one under seventeen should be enrolled as a soldier; another concerned the allies, and gave the Italians equal suffrage rights with Roman citizens;

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Tiberius and Caius Gracchus

1. ἀνανέμων Coraës and Bekker, after Du Soul, for the MSS. ἄμα νέμων. Ziegler adopts διανέμων, proposed by Sint. 2 and Cobet.

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