Gracchus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Gracchus, i, m.,

I a Roman family name in the gens Sempronia; the most celebrated are the two brothers Ti. and C. Sempronius Gracchus, sons of Ti. Sempronius and Cornelia , daughter of Scipio Africanus the elder , Cic. Brut. 86, 296; id. Phil. 7, 6, 17: Cornelia, mater Gracchorum, id. Brut. 58, 210; Juv. 6, 168: Gracchi de seditione querentes, id. 2, 24.—

II Deriv.

A Gracchā-nus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Gracchus , Gracchan : judices, i. e. the knights who were made judges by a law of C. Gracchus , Cic. Brut. 34, 128: tumultus, Val. Max. 1, 1: mala, Sen. Brev. Vit. 6.—

B Grac-chūris , ĭdis, f., a town in Spain founded by Ti. Sempronius Gracchus : Ti. Sempronius Gracchus proconsul Celtiberos victos in deditionem accepit, monumentumque operum suorum Gracchurim oppidum in Hispania constituit, Liv. Ep. 41; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 97 Müll.

V —Hence, Gracchū-rĭtāni , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Gracchuris , Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 24.