Caius

Family: Roman · Role: Roman statesman · First appears: Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes

Life events

• Tiberius and Caius were slain while attempting to escape from fellow citizens.(Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes)
  • With: Tiberius
  • “The Gracchi, fighting with their fellow-citizens, were both slain, as they endeavored to make their escape”

Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes

• siblings with Tiberius “What could be more just and honorable than their first design, had not the power and the faction of the rich, by endeavoring to abrogate that law, engaged them both in those fatal quarrels, the one, for his own preservation, the other, to revenge his brother's death, who was murdered without any law or justice?”
• with Antyllius (Caius was falsely blamed for Antyllius's death.) “As for the death of Antyllius, it is falsely and unjustly attributed to Caius, for he was slain unknown to him, and much to his grief.”

Antony

• parent: Germanicus “of the children of Germanicus, Caius, after a reign of distinction, was killed”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.