Cornélia Africana e os dois filhos de Tibério Graco em Roma. No final de seu mandato como tribuno da plebe, Tibério temia pela sua segurança e de sua família, mas contava com o apoio e a proteção da plebe romana.
English: Identifier: storyofgreatestn02elli (find matches) Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Subjects: World history Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: omesteads. He allowed some additional land to proprietors whohad children, and devised a plan for indemnifying those that were to be de-prived at once of their actual occupations. As may be supposed, the aristocracy immediately raised a furious protest,and the debates were bitter to the last degree. Now, it was Roman law thatno proposal could become legal unless all the tribunes agreed to it. The aris-tocracy induced one of the tribunes to interfere by veto. Tiberius was so en-raged that he appealed to the assembly of the tribes, and a decree was passedturning the obnoxious tribune out of office after which the law was passed.Then Tiberius, his brother Caius, and his father-in-law, Appius Claudius, werenominated triumvirs for carrying the proposed law into effect. Face to face with the momentous question, the aristocrats determined toprevent the election of these men by force; learning which, Gracchus bade hisfriends to arm themselves with staves. Seeing this, some of the people asked Text Appearing After Image: Rome—Fall of Tiberius Gracchus 347 ■Gracchus the meaning of it. He raised his hand to his head to signify thathis life was in danger. Several of his enemies ran to the Senate, exclaimingthat he demanded a crown. Scipio Nasica, a leading noble, urged the consul Scaevola to kill Gracchus,but seeing him hesitate, he sprang forward himself, flinging the skirt of histoga over his own head, as if about to perform a sacrifice, and shouted to thecitizens to revenge themselves upon the traitor. Instantly a furious riotstarted, in which several were killed. Tiberius, seeing his friends defeated, ranto the temple of Jupiter for refuge, but the priests shut the doors in his face.His foot struck a dead body, and while in the act of recovering himself, one ofhis associate tribunes stretched him on the ground with a fearful blow of hisclub. As he lay, he was beaten to death, and with him perished three hun-dred of his supporters. The bodies were dragged to the bank of the Tiber andflung into the Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.