1. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.11 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •sempronius gracchus, ti., political motives, alleged Found in books: Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 286 | 2.11. Thereupon Gracchus, so my father used to tell me, burst into a rage. 'How now?' he cried, 'was I not in order? I put the names to the vote as consul, as augur, and with auspices taken. Who are you, Tuscan barbarians, to know the Roman constitution, and to be able to lay down the law as to our elections?' And accordingly he then sent them about their business. Afterwards however he sent a dispatch from his province to the College of Augurs to say that while reading the sacred books it had come to his mind that there had been an irregularity when he took Scipio's park as the site for his augural tent, for he had subsequently entered the city bounds to hold a meeting of the Senate and when crossing the bounds again on his return had forgotten to take the auspices; and that therefore the consuls had not been duly elected. The College of Augurs referred the matter to the senate; the Senate decided that the consuls must resign; they did so. What more striking instances can we demand? A man of the greatest wisdom and I may say unrivalled distinction of character preferred to make public confession of an offence that he might have concealed rather than that the stain of impiety should cling to the commonwealth; the consuls preferred to retire on the spot from the highest office of the state rather than hold it for one moment of time in violation of religion. |
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| 2. Cicero, Letters To Quintus, 2.2.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •sempronius gracchus, ti., political motives, alleged Found in books: Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 285 |
3. Polybius, Histories, 31.15.9-31.15.11 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •sempronius gracchus, ti., political motives, alleged Found in books: Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 285| 31.15.9. πρεσβευτὰς δὲ κατέστησαν μετά τινας ἡμέρας τοὺς περὶ Τεβέριον Γράκχον καὶ Λεύκιον Λέντλον καὶ Σερουίλιον Γλαυκίαν, 31.15.10. οἵτινες ἔμελλον πρῶτον μὲν ἐποπτεύσειν τὰ κατὰ τοὺς Ἕλληνας, εἶτʼ ἐπιβαλόντες ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀσίαν τά τε κατὰ τὸν Δημήτριον καραδοκήσειν καὶ τὰς τῶν ἄλλων βασιλέων προαιρέσεις ἐξετάσειν καὶ τὰ πρὸς τοὺς Γαλάτας ἀντιλεγόμενα τοῖς προειρημένοις διευκρινήσειν. 31.15.11. διὸ τὸν Τεβέριον κατεστήσαντο πάντων αὐτόπτην γεγονέναι. | 31.15.9. After a few days they appointed three commissioners, Tiberius Gracchus, Lucius Lentulus, and Servilius Glaucia to examine first of all into the state of Greece, and then, crossing to Asia, to await the result of Demetrius's action, and to inquire into the sentiments of the other kings, and decide the differences between the latter and the Galatians. 31.15.11. The reason why they appointed Tiberius Gracchus was that he had personal knowledge of all these subjects. |
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| 4. Livy, History, 45.37-45.39 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •sempronius gracchus, ti., political motives, alleged Found in books: Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 286 |
| 5. Livy, Per., 55 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •sempronius gracchus, ti., political motives, alleged Found in books: Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 287 |
| 6. Suetonius, Galba, 18.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •sempronius gracchus, ti., political motives, alleged Found in books: Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 287 |
| 7. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 1.6.7, 9.12.3 Tagged with subjects: •sempronius gracchus, ti., political motives, alleged Found in books: Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 285, 287 |
| 8. Iulius Obsequens, Prodigiorum Liber, 24 Tagged with subjects: •sempronius gracchus, ti., political motives, alleged Found in books: Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 287 |
