1. gracchus, tiberius sempronius Romantribune and reformer, eldest son of Cornelia, and brought up by her; proposed, among others, a measure for the moreequaldistribution of the public land, which he had to battle for against heavyoddsthree 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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