possession of a good state of mind is not subject to any assault of unkind Fortune.
I can not tell if this is advising the wealthy on moderation or the poor on accepting their place.
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Cannot even that brief span aid me in preventing you from opposing me and ruining your country? F
Even after their death the plight of the plebs the Gracchus brothers brought up is taken up as a full political movement, reminds me a lot of the Language Caesar used.
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Then the poor, who had been ejected from their land, no longer showed themselves eager for military service
This is a common thread in almost all vices Rome has problems with, it seems to constantly be on their mind every waking moment even if they are not actively at war.
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But some put part of the blame upon Cornelia the mother of Tiberius, who often reproached her sons because the Romans still called her the mother-in-law of Scipio, but not yet the mother of the Gracchi. Others again say that a certain Spurius Postumius was to blame.
Much of the phrasing here is negative, that the Gracchus brothers turned out this way was due to foreign influence and a few others share "blame" instead of credit.
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by means of fictitious personages, transferred these rentals to themselve
How did the wealthy do this? would it not be difficult to create a new identity of a roman citizen versus just a latin? what level of government was this a failure or corruption of?
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all kindled by the people themselves, who posted writings on porticoes, house-walls, and monuments, calling upon him to recover for the poor the public land
This seems a much more likely explanation, versus political opponents trying to make Tiberius's politics only an act of his own pride.
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a capital charge is to be brought against them”
The Senates actual actions seem to just stop private worship, they are looking for state control of the religion rather than total abolishment.
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iolated or murdered could not be heard owing to the noise of drums and cymbals.
This is strange to read when it is followed directly that they could not find the cult or know how much it had grown without the informants. This also isn't documented in the inscription as a cause of the new laws so it just seems absurd.
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Shall these men, reeking with their impurity and that of those round them, wield their swords in defence of the chastity of your wives and children?
This is the only real time I see a direct problem caused by the revelry being hinted at outside of the first paragraph which reads as exaggeration, that the soldiers would not have the stoic morals needed to defend a city and that they would cause chaos within the ranks of the military.
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evil penetrated from Etruria t
This seems to be the only real mention of a foreign nation in both Livy and the Inscription in which Rome blames a foreign country for what is a domestic problem, they just do not want to take ownership of something that could be interpreted as a moral failing and instead weaponizes it against outsiders.
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He brought up the question of the rewards to be given to P. Aebutius and Hispala Fecenia, as it was owing to them that the Bacchanalia had been detected
The inscription makes no mention of the informants nor what seems like a large reward for them, while Livy dedicates a lot of time documenting their story. Also the vote of thanks given to the one who arrested the informants which is at least part of that government session making me think it should be documented.
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forbidding any who had been initiated from meeting together to celebrate their mysteries or performing any rites of a similar character,
Here it moves away from establishing a narrative backstory to the edicts we see in the Inscription, However Livy does not discuss the possible allowances that the inscription makes about actions being allowed with urban Praetor or senate approval.
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