In fact Gracchus, as his words and still more his works plainly testify, aimed at the overthrow of the government of the senate, what other political organization but the tyrannis remained possible, after overthrowing the aristocratic government, in
which had outgrown primary assemblies and for which parliamentary
questions
did not exist?
questions
did not exist?
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
