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MARCUS FuLVIUS See also:

FLACCUS, grandnephew of the first See also:Quintus, lived in the times of the Gracchi, of whom he was a strong supporter. After the See also:death of Tiberius See also:Gracchus (133 B.C.) he was appointed in his See also:place one of the See also:commission of three for the See also:distribution of the See also:land. He was suspected of having had a See also:hand in the sudden death of the younger Scipio (129), but there was no See also:direct See also:evidence against him. When See also:consul in 125, he proposed to confer the See also:Roman citizenship on all the See also:allies, and to allow even those who had not acquired it the right of See also:appeal to the popular See also:assembly against penal judgments. This proposal, though for the See also:time successfully opposed by the See also:senate, eventually led to the Social See also:War. The attack made upon the Massilians (who were allies of See also:Rome) by the Salluvii (See also:Salyes) afforded a convenient excuse for sending Flaccus out of Rome: After his return in See also:triumph, he was again sent away (122), this time with See also:Gaius Gracchus to See also:Carthage to found a See also:colony, but did not remain absent See also:long. In T21 the disputes between the optimates and the party of Gracchus culminated in open hostilities, during which Flaccus was killed, together with Gracchus and a number of his supporters. It is generally agreed that Flaccus was perfectly honest in his support of the Gracchan reforms, but his hot-headedness did more harm than See also:good to the cause. See also:Cicero (See also:Brutus, 28) speaks of him as an orator of moderate See also:powers, but a diligent student. See See also:Livy, Epit. 59-61; Val. Max. ix.

5. I ; Vell. Pat. ii. 6; See also:

Appian, See also:Bell. Civ. i. 18, 21, 24.26; See also:Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 10. 13; also A. H. J. Greenidge, Hist. of Rome (1904), and authorities quoted under GRACCHUS.

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