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
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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
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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

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