So with the small circle of his friends he held a middle position between the aristocrats, who never forgave him for his advocacy of the Cassian law, and the democrats, whom he neither satisfied nor wished to satisfy; solitary during his life, praised after his death by both parties, now as the champion of the aristocracy, now as the promoter of reform.

Down to his time the censors on laying down their office had called upon the gods to grant greater power and glory to the state: the censor Scipio prayed that they might deign to preserve the state.

His whole confession of faith lies in that painful exclamation.
Tiberius Gracchus But where the man who had twice led the Roman army from deep decline to victory despaired, a youth without achievements had the boldness to give himself forth as the saviour of Italy.

He was called Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (591-621).

His father who bore the same name (consul in 577, 591; censor in 585), was the true model of a Roman aristocrat.