Sidenotes message history6/10/2023 ![]() Opimius had announced, that whomever brings the head of Gracchus to him will recieve its weight of gold. Gracchus fled having taken no part into fighting and after a prayer in the temple of Diana at Mons Aventinus continued his escape into a grove across the river Tiber sacred to Furrina, where he committed a suicide. Opimius ordered the violence to start and following tumult saw Fulvius to be put into death along with his oldest son and many supporters. When Gracchus went and left Licinia crying, the slaves carried devastated Licinia into her brother’s house.Īfter half-hearted attempt for negotiations L. When Gracchus was leaving his home, his wife Licinia begged him not to go as she knew as well as he, that Gracchus would be killed if he went to the public meeting. ![]() Gracchus refused both to wear armour and to arm himself with anything else than a dagger. Fulvius and his supporters armed themselves for the morning meeting from the spoils of Fulvius’ Gallic battles, but C. At this point there was no turning back from the road of violence. Opimius got the Senate to arm itself and to command all members of the equesterians to arm themselves along with two slaves each and to assemble next morning. This murder, that Gracchus actually did not approve, was a needed pretext for Opimius to get a senatus consultum ultimum, an emergency degree of the Senate to defend the republic – also establishing this very dangerous political tool for future years to be used as ultimate measure in internal power struggles. Opimius, consul of the year, and his killers were supporters of C. When a certain Quintus Antyllius was beaten to death by angry crowd in 121, a chain of events, that left its mark to the Roman history forever, was set loose. The chart of the Rom… on The chart of the Roman noble f… Mikkosillanpaa on THE CHART OF THE ROMAN NOBLE F… Joseph Eaton on THE CHART OF THE ROMAN NOBLE F… The chart of the Roman noble families of late republican period, version 1.1.The chart of the Roman noble families of late republican period, version 1.2.At the core of republican power Mucia Tertia?.THE CHART OF THE ROMAN NOBLE FAMILIES OF LATE REPUBLICAN PERIOD, VERSION 2.
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