person
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
Ti. Gracchus (the censor)
also: Ti. Gracchus, Tiberius Gracchus, Ti. Gracchus P. F.
Twice consul (177, 163 BC) and censor (169 BC), father of the tribunes Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus; a Greek speech of his before the Rhodians survived. Cicero (Brutus 79, 103-104) calls him as weighty as he was eloquent.
Reading notes
- On Duties §2.43 Tiberius Gracchus, son of Publius
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 177 BC), censor and respected statesman, father of the two tribunes. Cicero contrasts his lasting good name with the divisive memory of his sons.