[Linenotes: 2. +Numantia+, destroyed by P. Scipio Africanus Minor Numantinus, 133 B.C. 3. +P. Nasīca+, a partisan leader of the Senate. +privatus+ = _not in office_. Cicero speaks very differently of the Gracchi when it suits his purpose, e.g. in _de lege agraria_, ii. § 10, _duos (Gracchos) clarissimos, ingeniosissimos, amantissimos plebei Romanae viros ... quorum consiliis, sapientia, legibus multas esse video partes constitutas_.] B. _On the Lex Frumentaria of C. Gracchus, 123 B.C._ Et quidem C. Gracchus, cum largitiones maximas {5} fecisset et effudisset aerarium, verbis tamen defendebat aerarium. Quid verba audiam, cum facta videam? L. Piso ille Frugi semper contra legem frumentariam dixerat. Is lege lata consularis ad frumentum accipiendum venerat. Animum advertit {10} Gracchus in contione Pisonem stantem: quaerit audiente populo Romano qui sibi constet, cum ea lege frumentum petat, quam dissuaserit. ‘Nolim’ inquit ‘mea bona, Gracche, tibi viritim dividere libeat, sed si facias, partem petam.’ Parumne declaravit vir {15} gravis et sapiens lege Sempronia patrimonium publicum dissipari? Lege orationes Gracchi, patronum aerari esse dices. _Tusc. Disput._ iii. 20, 48. [Linenotes: 8. +L. Piso ille Frugi+ = L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi (the man of _worth_), a convinced and honourable opponent of C. Gracchus. 8-9. +legem frumentariam+, by which corn was sold to Roman citizens at about half the market price. ‘One of the worst measures ever proposed by a well-meaning statesman.’ --Ihne. 12. +qui+ = _how_, old abl. of _qui_.] C. _On C. Gracchus as an Orator._ Sed ecce in manibus vir et praestantissimo ingenio et flagranti studio et doctus a puero, C. Gracchus. Noli enim putare quemquam. Brute, pleniorem et uberiorem ad dicendum fuisse. _Brutus_, 125. [Linenote: 20. +doctus a puero.+ CORNELIA MATER GRACCHORUM (inscribed upon her statue erected by the Roman people), the daughter of the Conqueror of Zama, was mainly responsible for their training and education; so Cic. _Brut._ 104 _Fuit Tib. Gracchus diligentia matris a puero doctus et Graecis literis eruditus_. ‘From her they had received that sensitive nature and that sympathy with the weak and suffering, which animated their political action.’ --Ihne.] B3 THE JUGURTHINE WAR, 111-106 B.C. _The Betrayal of Jugurtha, 106 B.C._