Gracchus

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Gracchus: i, m.,
I a Roman family name in the gens Sempronia; the most celebrated are the two brothers Ti. and C. Sempronius Gracchus, sons of Ti. Sempronius and Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus the elder, Cic. Brut. 86, 296; id. Phil. 7, 6, 17: Cornelia, mater Gracchorum, id. Brut. 58, 210; Juv. 6, 168: Gracchi de seditione querentes, id. 2, 24.—
II Deriv.
A Gracchā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Gracchus, Gracchan: judices, i. e. the knights who were made judges by a law of C. Gracchus, Cic. Brut. 34, 128: tumultus, Val. Max. 1, 1: mala, Sen. Brev. Vit. 6.—
B Grac-chūris, ĭdis, f., a town in Spain founded by Ti. Sempronius Gracchus: Ti. Sempronius Gracchus proconsul Celtiberos victos in deditionem accepit, monumentumque operum suorum Gracchurim oppidum in Hispania constituit, Liv. Ep. 41; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 97 Müll.—Hence, Gracchū-rĭtāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Gracchuris, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 24.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Gracchus,⁹ ī, m., nom d’une famille de la gens Sempronia, v. Gracchi.

Latin > German (Georges)

Gracchus, ī, m., ein Familienname des sempronischen Geschlechts, aus dem am bekanntesten die Volkstribunen u. Brüder Tib. u. C. Sempron. Gracchus, Söhne des Tib. Sempron. Gracchus u. der Kornelia, der Tochter des ältern Scipio Afrikanus, Cornif. rhet. 4, 7 u. 4, 46 (wo synk. Genet. Plur. Gracchûm). Cic. de or. 1, 38; Brut. 27, 103; 33, 125 u. s. – Dav. Gracchānus, a, um, gracchanisch, des Gracchus, der Gracchen, iudices, Cic.: leges, Vell.: tumultus, Val. Max.