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Gracchus

Proper noun

Meaning

Gracchus

a Roman cognomen

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Moas aren't very bright,” Gracchus answers. "That's one good reason why they became extinct. Robert Silverberg

Babeuf – now self-styled Gracchus Babeuf – defended the fallen Terror politicians with the stated goal of achieving equality "in fact" and not only "by proclamation". Source: Internet

Historian Michael Crawford attributes the disappearance of much of Tiberius Gracchus' support to the reduced level of citizen participation due to dispersal far from Rome, and sees his tribunate as marking a step in the Hellenization of Roman aristocracy. Source: Internet

Guy Davenport, The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996. Source: Internet

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