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On the other side of the coin, the machinations to divide and defeat the interests of the plebeians were horribly fascinating. Beware the promises of a Drusus.
by monetus 8y ago
On the other side of the coin, the machinations to divide and defeat the interests of the plebeians were horribly fascinating. Beware the promises of a Drusus.
In my mind, the failures of the gracchiae seem to echo for hundreds of years until Rome itself was sacked.
Granted, the gracchiae were fighting for the latins, but the lack of compassion shown to visigoths undoubtedly played a role in the impetus behind their uprising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Livius_Drusus_(consul) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Livius_Drusus_(consul)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Gracchus#Senatorial_Response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Gracchus#Senatorial_Resp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracchi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracchi
- woodruffw 8y agoI'll be that guy: Gracchi is already plural (-ī is the plural masculine nominative for the singular Gracchus). You can also see in in their gens: they're each Sempronius, so the family is gens Sempronii ("the Sempronius clan", "the family of the Semproniuses").
- monetus 8y agoYa that's what I thought too, but I heard a few people say gracchiae and just followed the leader, wondering why the name turned feminine. You think gracchiae could be referring to the whole lineage or something?
- woodruffw 8y agoThe whole lineage would be just gens Gracchi, I think. It's made a little complicated by the fact that the Gracchi weren't a real gens, just a plebian/low-patrician branch of the Sempronii. Grammatically I'd represent that as Gracchī Seproniōrum ("the Gracchi of the Sempronii"), but I have no idea if that's idiomatic. Caveat lector!
- groovy2shoes 8y agoThe -i in gens Sempronii is the singular genitive in this case ("the clan of Sempronius" or "Sempronius's clan"). Good ol' inflexional paradigms :)