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The Roman History of Appian of Alexandria: The civil wars
The Roman History of Appian of Alexandria The civil wars Author:Appianus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Y.R. 633-tg a grove where he presented Jusihroat to the slave, as hewas on the point of being arrested. Flaccus took refuge in the workshop of an acquaintance... more ». As his pursuers did not know which house he was in they threatened to burn the whole row. The man who had given shelter to the suppliant hesitated to point him out, but directed another man to do so. Flaccus was seized and put to death. The heads ol Jjracchus and Flaccus were carried to Opimfus, and he jjave their weijgh.Ljn-Soldto those who brought them. The people plundered their houses. Opimius arrested their fellow-conspirators, cast them into prison, and ordered that they should be strangled. He allowed Quin- tus, theson of Flaccus, to choosej1is own mode of deafF. After this a lustration was performed in behalf of the city for the bloodshed, and the Senate ordered the building of a temple to Concord in the forum. Chapter IV Failure of the Agrarian Law — The Killing of Nonius — Division of Gallic Land — The Sedition of Saturninus — Banishment of Metellus — Murder of Memmius — Punishment of Saturninus — Reign of Terror 27. So the sedition of the younger Gracchus camejo an end. Not lo'ng atterward a law was enacted to permit thejiolders to sell theJand about which they had quarrelled; iorevŁrjtbJshad-keenforbidden by the law of the.eHer Gracchus, Presently the rich bought the allotments of the poor, or found pretexts for seizing them by force. So the condition of the poor became even worse than it was before, until Spurius Borius, a tribune of the people, brought in a law providing that the work of distributing the public domain should no longer be continued, but that the land should belong to those in possession of it, who should pay rent for it to the people, and that the money so received should be distrib...« less