Word: gracchus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Name a reform of Gaius Gracchus similar to one that is now being advocated by President Roosevelt...
...North, until at last in 147 the eagle cast its shadow over the far flung frontiers of the world. In its last war of this period a young man smiled at his commander, whom the Romans called Africans, and scaled the walls of Carthage. That young man was Tiberius Gracchus, one of a long and famous line. In after years he was elected a Tribune of the people and he became the world's first great democrat. But democracy rang less magnificently in the ears of the people than it does today. Tiberius was scoffed at and rebuked until...
...there arose another Gracchus called Gaius, a bolder, more able man, who became the second great democrat. He hearkened to the works of his brother and did likewise. He lifted up the poor and laid low the rich until at last the fathers at Rome rose up at his impudence and declared him "a public enemy." A mob sought him out in anger and found across the river in the grove of Furrina, Gaius' body lying beside his slave...