CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gaius Gracchus, Julii Caesares, Latin Rights
15 Apr 2016
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Gaius sempronius gracchus and his tribunate, 123-122 bc. Married licinia, the daughter of p. licinius crassus dives mucianus. Important ally/friend- m. fulvius flaccus, cos. 125, tribune 122. Gaius re-instated the land commission (lex agraria) and set a fixed price for grain (lex frumentaria, where frumentum means grain in latin). These measures benefitted the poor citizens of rome. He made efforts to alleviate the problem with debt by limiting interest. He organized colonies for a few italian towns including tarentum. For the knights, the equites (singular, eques), he passed a law wherein collecting the taxes of asia would be framed out to equestrian companies. He also passed law which made knights the jurors for extortion cases against provincial governors. Gaius" main opponent was a tribune, named marcus livius drusus. One of the two consuls for that year was l. opimius. The slaughter was far greater and even more brutal this time. The senate thereafter was divided into two camps.
