11 Fulvio Flacco, slain with C. Gracchus, 121 B.C.
17 pessum dedit = has destroyed. pessum (prob.) = pedis + versum = towards the feet, to the ground, cf. pessum ire.
The aim of the Gracchi. ‘Their object was to reduce the excessive power of the nobility, and to make the sovereignty of the people, which had become merely nominal, a reality.’—Ihne.
Their political mistake. ‘Their error consisted in the belief that such a change was possible by returning to the simple forms of the old Comitia. They overlooked the necessity of remodelling the Roman people itself by giving the popular assemblies a form which would in reality make them represent the people.’—Ihne.
CICERO ON THE GRACCHI.
[A.] On the Death of Tiberius Gracchus, 133 B.C.
Nec plus Africanus, singularis et vir et imperator, in exscindenda Numantia rei publicae profuit quam eodem tempore P. Nasica privatus, cum Ti. Gracchum interemit.
De Off. i. 76.
2 Numantia, destroyed by P. Scipio Africanus Minor Numantinus, 133 B.C.