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	Lucius Opimius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucius Opimius was Roman consul in 121 BC.
		Fulvius Flaccus were defeated for re-election by Opimius and Fabius, Gracchus organized a mass protest on the Aventine Hill.
		Opimius was prosecuted for these violent actions in 120 BC, but Carbo won his acquittal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Opimius (299 words)

	Lucius Opimius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lucius Opimius was (An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire) Roman (A diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country) consul in 121 BC.
		Opimius was prosecuted for these violent actions in 120 BC, but (Click link for more info and facts about Carbo) Carbo won his acquittal.
		Opimius was forced into (Voluntarily absent from home or country) exile, where he later died.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lu/lucius_opimius.htm (429 words)

	Lucius Malfoy - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Lucius Malfoy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lucius Malfoy is a fictional character in the Harry Potter novels by J. Rowling.
		Lucius Malfoy is married to Narcissa Black, cousin of Sirius Black and they have a son named Draco Malfoy.
		Lucius Malfoy was 41 at the time of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, placing his birth at 1954.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Lucius-Malfoy.html (737 words)

	Atticus of Rome, 30 B.C. (The Life and Times Series)
		As Lucius had no sons of his own, he took young Atticus under his wing to teach him the importance of his duty, to protect the Emperor from people plotting against him.
		In a story somewhat similar to "Gladiator", Atticus,a young boy, is sold to a high level Roman politician as a slave after his mother and sister were both killed by Roman soldiers, and his father was separated from him.
		It turns out that his owner, Master Lucius Opimius, is a spy for the Emperor, on the lookout for any traiters.
	www.quizbox.com /resources/books/details.aspx?id=0439524539 (909 words)

	Lucius Julius Caesar - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Lucius Julius Caesar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sextus was a militry tribune under Lucius Aemilius Pallus and a Proconsul of Liguria and lived in 200bc.
		Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus was an orator and his brother Lucius Julius Caesar III were killed together in 87bc at the beginning of the Civil War by Partisans of Marius.
		Lucius proposed Roman Citizenship Laws to allies who didn't participate in the Social War against Rome in 90bc.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Lucius-Julius-Caesar.html (501 words)

	CARBO - LoveToKnow Article on CARBO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Carbo was suspected of having been concerned in the sudden death of Scipio (129), if not his actual murderer.
		He subsequently went over to the optimates, and (when consul in I 20) successfully defended Lucius Opimius, the murderer of Gaius Gracchus, when he was impeached for the murder of citizens without a trial, and even went so far as to say that Gracchus had been justly slain.
		He was impeached by Licinius Crassus on a similar charge, and, feeling that he bad nothing to hope for from the optimates and that his condemnation was certain, he committed suicide.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CARBO.htm (477 words)

	El Paso Times - Education
		Atticus is the newly acquired slave of Lucius Opimius, a wealthy political figure and best friend of the emperor.
		Although Atticus cannot forget being torn from his family by plundering Roman soldiers who burned his village and killed his mother and sister, he finds life tolerable and even enjoyable at Lucius Opimius' home.
		Atticus is permitted to accompany Lucius Opimius on his daily errands.
	www.elpasotimes.com /education (897 words)

	List of ancient Romans - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lucius Coelius Antipater - jurist, rhetorician, and historian
		Lucius Aemilius Paullus - 3rd century BC politician, defeated in Cannae
		Lucius Cornelius Scipio - two; consul and son of Scipio Africanus Major
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_ancient_romans.html (821 words)

	Online Book Reviews on Child Literature - Childrens Book Reviews
		His family dead except for his father whose whereabouts are unknown, Atticus is bought by a Roman who gives the impression of being quite and retiring, of living outside the political life of Rome.
		In actual fact Atticus's master, Lucius Opimius, acts as the eyes and ears of the Emperor, watching for signs of treachery and discontent among Rome's powerful political figures.
		By going to the baths, the barbershop, by giving a banquet and most of all by listening, Lucius Opimius and Atticus uncover a dreadful plot.
	www.lookingglassreview.com /Ancient_Civilizations_Rome.html (1919 words)

	Gaius Gracchus
		Not merely did he possess the high authority of his consular office, but he also was backed by a senatus consultum optimum, which was the order of the highest authority known to the Roman constitution.
		And there was little doubt that Opimius sought to bring about the end of Gaius Gracchus that night, for he was in fact the most prominent - and most bitter - rival of Gracchus and Flaccus.
		What followed on the arrival of Opimius with a militia, legionary infantry and archers on the Aventine hill was in effect a massacre.
	www.roman-empire.net /republic/gai-gracchus.html (1017 words)

	carbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Carbo was suspected of having been concerned in the sudden death of Scipio (129).
		He subsequently went over to the optimates, and (when consul in 120) successfully defended Lucius Opimius, the murderer of Gaius Gracchus, when hi was impeached for the murder of citizens without a trial, and even went so far as to say that Gracchus had been justly slain.
		He was impeached by Licinius Crassus on a similar charge, and, feeling that he bad nothing to hop for from the optimates and that his condemnation was certain, he committed suicide.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /carbo.html (523 words)

	Theodor Mommsen History of Rome - The Revolution Page 47 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On the 10th of December, 632, Gracchus ceased to be tribune of the people; on the 1st of January, 633, Opimius entered on his office.
		Gracchus, who with the other men nominated to establish it was just then selecting the colonists, appeared on the day of voting at the Capitol whither the burgesses were convoked, with a view to procure by means of his adherents the rejection of the law.
		The consul Lucius Opimius took his measures to put down by force of arms the insurrection for the overthrow of the republican constitution, as they were fond of designating the events of this day.
	italian.classic-literature.co.uk /history-of-rome/04-the-revolution/ebook-page-47.asp (425 words)

	Cicero's 1st Catilinarian
		Then another, Senator, Lucius Saenius, read out in the Senate a letter indicating that Manlius had taken the field at Faesulae on precisely the day which Cicero had foretold.
		The Senate once ordained that Lucius Opimius,(5) who was at that time consul, should take measures to protect the state from harm.
		Opimius was responsible for the death of C. Sempronius Gracchus (121).
	www.u.arizona.edu /~afutrell/republic/cic1stcatilin.html (6192 words)

	Livy: the Periochae of Books 61-65
		Lucius Opimius, accused before the people by Quintus Decius, tribune of the plebs, on the charge that he had sent citizens to jail without trial, was acquitted.
		Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, acting as censors, removed thirty-two members from the Senate.
		In the country of the Nitiobriges, consul Lucius Cassius [Longinus] was massacred with his army by the Gallic Tigurini, a Helvetian tribe that had left its own country.
	www.livius.org /li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae061.html (1077 words)

	The Temple of Concord
		According to legend the Temple of Concord was built to celebrate the end of the political conflict between the Patricians and Plebeians by Camillus in 367 BC.
		More recently Lucius Manlius, Praetor in 218, has been identified as the builder.
		It was rebuilt in 121 BC by Lucius Opimius at the end of the political upheaval of the Gracchi.
	www.sionmc.com /Rome/forum/temple_of_concord.htm (108 words)

	III. The First Oration Against Catiline by Cicero. Rome (218 B.C.-84 A.D.). Vol. II. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. ...
		The senate once passed a decree that Lucius Opimius, the consul, should take care that the republic suffered no injury.
		There was put to death, on some mere suspicion of disaffection, Caius Gracchus, a man whose family had borne the most unblemished reputation for many generations.
		By a like decree of the senate the safety of the republic was entrusted to Caius Marius and Lucius Valerius, the consuls.
	www.bartleby.com /268/2/11.html (3742 words)

	Jugurtha
		They proposed that a commission of senators, led by former consul Lucius Opimius, should visit Numidia and divide the kingdom between the two men.
		But proconsul Lucius Calpurnius Bestia was incapable, or bribed, or both; in any case, Jugurtha was able to overcome the attack.
		The surrender is shown on a coin that was later minted by Sulla's son Faustus: Sulla, seated on a tribunal, Bocchus offering branches of a tree as a token of submission, and Jugurtha with his arms tied behind his back.
	www.livius.org /jo-jz/jugurtha/jugurtha.html (1298 words)

	Hampden Latin
		[2] Once the senate decreed that Lucius Opimius, consul, would see that the republic would seize nothing of detriment.
		With a similar decree of the senate the republic was entrusted to the consuls Gaius Gracchus and Lucius Valerius.
		a hendiadys, the death penalty imposed by the state) detain the tribune of the plebs Lucius Saturninus and the praetor Gaius Servilius?
	www.ha.sad22.us:16080 /BenJohnson/catiline.html (742 words)

	Gaius Gracchus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gaius started his political career in 126 BC, as quaestor to consul Lucius Aurelius Orestes in Sardinia.
		Gaius tried to run for a third time, with Marcus Fulvius Flaccus his colleague and partner.
		But in this year, they lost and could do nothing besides watching the removal of all their laws by the new conservative consuls (Quintus Fabius Maximus and Lucius Opimius).
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/g/ga/gaius_gracchus.html (630 words)

	Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Consul Lucius Opimius, an obvious political enemy of the populares party, was all too happy to see this occur.
		The carrying of weapons by Gracchus’ supporters was all the excuse needed for the Senate to act out.
		Charging Opimius with the first ever, and soon to be regular occurring, Senatus Consultum Ultimatum (the ultimate decree of martial law), he set out after the protestors with an armed militia of legionary infantry and auxilia archers.
	homepages.stuy.edu /~badgleyb/html_docs/gracchi.htm (2124 words)

	The Romans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Interestingly enough, wine was not a particularly popular drink among the Romans until late in the Republican period.
		Nonetheless, the Ancient Greeks called Italy "Oenotria" - a name which many scholars suggest means "land of the vine." Originally the choicest wines were imported from Greece and the East, but an outstanding combination of weather and geography produced a renowned Italian vintage during the consulship of Lucius Opimius (121 B.C).
		Pliny the Elder noted that wines of that year had been kept by connoisseurs until his own day - some 200 years after the vintage had been produced.
	www.vanalstyneisd.org /latinpg/wine.html (268 words)

	Aventine Hill
		The consul Lucius Opimius proceded to the Aventine Hill to restore order.
		Opimius put a militia of legionary infantry and archers on the Aventine hill and the result was a massacre.
		Gaius, realizing the situation was hopeless, ordered his personal slave to stab him, and ended his life.
	www.historywalker.com /officialpaper/1/HistRomAve.html (595 words)

	The First Oration Against Catiline, Cicero
		They were scattered about in the different districts and colonies of Italy; but he had actually enlisted a considerable body of them in Etruria, and formed them into a little army under the command of Manlius, a centurion of considerable military experience, who was only waiting for his orders.
		He was joined in his conspiracy by several senators of profligate lives and desperate fortunes, of whom the chiefs were Publius Cornelius Lentulus, Caius Cethegus, Publius Autronius, Lucius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Porcius Lecca, Publius Sylla, Servilius Sylla, Quintus Curius, Lucius Vargunteius, Quintus Annius, and Lucius Bestia.
		Lentulus was to be president of their councils, Cassius was to manage the firing of the city, and Cethegus the massacre.
	patriot.net /~carey/afa/latinclub/CicCat1st.htm (4255 words)

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		Publius Mucius SCAEVOLA and Lucius Calpurnius PISO Frugi (p.
		What colony of Roman veterans was founded in Gallia Transalpina in 118 BC by Lucius Crassus and the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus?
		Gaius Laelius brought up agrarian reform for discussion/debate during either his praetorship (145 BC) or possibly his consulship (140 BC).
	www.speakeasy.org /~bwduncan/cary20.txt (1486 words)

	Hampden Latin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Flaccus organized a mass demonstration in support of Gaius on the Aventine Hill, and apparently some of the protesters brought weapons.
		The Senate passed its most powerful decree, a senatus consultum optimum, which ordered the consul Lucius Opimius, a political opponent of Gracchus and Flaccus, to use all means necessary to secure the safety of the state.
		With Gaius's followers carrying swords, Opimius resorted to force and with legionaries and arches massacred 3,000 men.
	www.ha.sad22.us:16080 /BenJohnson/cgracchus.html (685 words)

	122-95 BC: G. Marius
		Can a magistrate (consul L. Opimius) protect the people by putting citizens to death without a trial (contra the lex provocationis, in force since the beginning of the res publica)?
		Aemilianus at Numantia in 133, tribune 119, praetor 115, deputy (legatus) of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (the "Caecilii Metelli": powerful Senatorial faction); political marriage in 111 to Julia, sister of Gaius Caesar (father of Julius Caesar, born in 100 BC)
		Marius' 1st consulship: 107; People appoint him to succeed Metellus over wishes of Senate; his quaestor = Lucius Cornelius Sulla (optimates) remains in Italy to raise cavalry.
	www.skidmore.edu /academics/classics/courses/1999fall/hi202/122-95.html (335 words)

	The SCU
		The Senatus Consultum de Republica Defendenda was first passed by the Senate to deal with mass protest of Gaius Gracchus on the Aventine Hill in 121 BC; it avoided the need to elect a dictator rei gerendae causa.
		Consul Lucius Opimius understood the Senatus Consultum de Republica Defendenda as an order to suppress their activites by any means necessary, including force.
		Thereafter Opimius formed an army of Senators and their clients, and confronted Gracchus and his supporters in a pitched battle within the walls of Roma.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/258870 (254 words)

	The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 by Various eBook by BookRags
		The heads of the two fallen leaders were handed over to the Government as required.
		The stipulated price, and more, was paid to Lucius Septumuleius, a man of quality, the bearer of the head of Gracchus; while the murderers of Flaccus, persons of humble rank, were sent away with empty hands.
		The bodies of the dead were thrown into the river, and the houses of the leaders were abandoned to the pillage of the multitude.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/10114/212.html (370 words)

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