[644] Plutarch, Parallel between Agis and Tiberius Gracchus, iv.
[645] “Pure and just in his views.” (Velleius Paterculus, II. 2.)—“Animated by the noblest ambition.” (Appian, Civil Wars, I. 9.)
[646] Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 9.
[647] “It was at the instigation of the rhetorician Diophanes and the philosopher Blossius that he took counsel of the citizens of Rome most distinguished for their reputation and virtues: among others, Crassus, the grand pontiff; Mucius Scævola, the celebrated lawyer, then consul; and Appius Claudius, his father-in-law.” (Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 9.)
[648] Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 9.
[649] Aulus Gellius relates two passages from the speech of C. Gracchus, which we think ought rather to be ascribed to Tib. Sempronius Gracchus. In one, he has stated the case of a young noble who caused a peasant to be murdered because he made a joke upon him as he passed in a litter; in the other, he told the story of a consul who ordered the most considerable men in the town of Teanum to be beaten with rods, because the consul’s wife, going to bathe, had found the baths of the town not clean. (Aulus Gellius, X. 3.)
[650] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 12.
[651] Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 16.
[652] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 13.
[653] Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 12.