Is your loyalty greater than that of [Gaius] Gracchus, or your feelings, or your intelligence, or your resources, or your influence, or eloquence? Had they been minimal in that man, in comparison with your abilities they would have been considered maximal. M. Tullius Cicero. Speech before Roman Citizens on Behalf of Gaius Rabirius, Defendant Against the Charge of Treason. Chapter 1. Section 14.
Image: The pursuit of Gaius Gracchus, 1900, by W. H. Weston, Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Image: The pursuit of Gaius Gracchus, 1900, by W. H. Weston, Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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