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'Here it would be possible, he thought, to hold the enemy at bay', c1912 (1912). Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (154-121 BC) was a Roman Popularis politician in the 2nd century BC. He was the brother of the reformer Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. His election to the office of tribune in the years 123 BC and 122 BC and reformative policies while in office prompted a constitutional crisis resulting in his death at the hands of the Roman Senate in 121 BC. From The Story of Rome, by Mary MacGregor. [Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1912]