Gaius Gracchus

Plutarchus

In his efforts to carry this law Caius is said to have shown remarkable earnestness in many ways, and especially in this, that whereas all popular orators before him had turned their faces towards the senate and that part of the forum called the "comitium," he now set a new example by turning towards the other part of the forum as he harangued the people, and continued to do this from that time on, ... his implication was that speakers ought to address themselves to the people, and not to the senate.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Plutarchus: Parallel Lives (Volume X. Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 102, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1921, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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