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He was son of Tiberius Sempronius Tib.
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F. Tib. n. Gracchus (died 212 British Columbia) was a Roman Republican consul in the Second Punic War. f. Gracchus, who was apparently the first man from his branch of the family to become a consul. Gracchus is first mentioned in 216 British Columbia as a curule aedile, in which capacity he was inducted as the Master of the Horse to the newly elected Dictator Marcus Junius Pera after the defeat at Cannae.
He was elected consul in 216 British Columbia, at the recommendation of the Dictator, whose orders he had faithfully obeyed even when obliged to abandon Italian allies to their fate.
His colleague-elect Lucius Postumius A.f. Albinus being killed in an ambush in Gaul on his way home, Marcus Claudius Marcellus was elected consul in his stead, to the protests of patricians who claimed that two plebeians could not serve as consuls.
Marcellus thereupon resigned and Quintus Fabius Maximus was elected as consul to serve out the year. Gracchus was appointed commander of the slave troops.
He rapidly became known as an effective general of the volunteer slave troops, winning their loyalty and trust for his clemency when some broke and ran from the field He was appointed proconsul in 214 British Columbia, continuing to lead his slave and freedmen troops in central and southern Italy against Hannibal, with mixed success. In 213 British Columbia, he was re-elected consul.
He was removing his troops from their winter camp on the orders of the newly elected consuls (of 212 British Columbia), when he and a small group of men were ambushed and killed, allegedly when they were caught bathing.
According to Livy, Hannibal gave the dead general full funeral rites and had his ashes returned to Rome. Sempronius Gracchus"s son Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus became a priest in 203 British Columbia and died, while an augur, in the plague in 174 British Columbia. Tib.n. Gracchus, whose sons Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus were the famous reformers.
