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Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Roman tribune and reformer, eldest son of Cornelia, and brought up by her; proposed, among others, a measure for the more equal distribution of the public land, which he had to battle for against heavy odds three successive times, but carried it the third time; was killed with others of his followers afterwards in a riot, and his body thrown into the Tiber and refused burial, 138 B.C., aged 40.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​g/gracchus-tiberius-sempronius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.