amendment, thatthey should have it for nothing at all; and as to the corn in the publicgranaries, if Gracchus said the people ought to have it at half price,Drusus would insist upon their right to be paid for the trouble of walkingaway with it. The people, as a matter of course, followed the man… … Bash Act of Caius Gracchus. The reporters of the period—who were, no doubt, in the pay of hisopponents—circulated all kinds of ill-natured stories, in which it wasalleged that the omens had been unfavourable : that the flags had beenblown down, or the pavement blown up; and that the wolves had…
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