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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 238 BC)

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 238 BC)

Ancient Roman general and statesman


Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (fl. 238 BC), a Roman republican consul in the year 238 BC, was the first man from his branch of the family to become consul.[citation needed] (Several other plebeian Sempronii had already reached the consulship and even the censorship.)

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He was the father of the homonymous consul of 215 and 213 BC who served in the Second Punic War, and the great-grandfather of reformist Gracchi brothers: Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.

Career

Gracchus first appears as plebeian aedile in 246 BC. He and his colleague, Gaius Fundanius Fundulus, built a temple to Libertas on the Aventine hill from revenue collected from various fines.[1]

He served as consul for 238 BC; during his consulship, he occupied Sardinia and campaigned in Liguria.[2] His patrician colleague was Publius Valerius Falto.[2] He apparently vowed to dedicate a temple, not completed in his lifetime. That temple was completed and dedicated by his homonymous elder son, the consul of 215 BC and 213 BC.[citation needed]

Family and descendants

His son was the Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus who was consul in 215 and 213 BC.[3] This Gracchus had two sons:

  • Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who was elected to the priesthood in 203 BC at a very young age, and who died in the plague of 174 BC.[citation needed]
  • Tiberius Veturius Gracchus Sempronianus, who replaced his dead kinsman as augur, and whose name indicates that he was born a Sempronius and adopted into the patrician Veturii.[citation needed]

Other descendants include:[citation needed]

Other possible descendants

See also


Sources

  1. Broughton 1951, pp. 216–17.
  2. Badian, Ernst (2012). "Sempronius Gracchus (1), Tiberius". In Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther (eds.). The Oxford classical dictionary (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 1344. ISBN 978-0-19-954556-8. OCLC 959667246.
  3. Broughton 1951, pp. 397, 440.

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