Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul in -125)

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Marcus Fulvius Flaccus was a Roman senator and an ally of the Gracques. Plutarque qualified it d'" man turbulent" , " " with the character instable" " and with the " " temperament of révolutionnaire" , judgment of denigration whose the reformists of this period were victims.

In -133, according to Plutarque, Fulvius warns Tiberius Gracchus that the preserving patricians and their partisans come to attack it on the forum, but too late: Tiberius is killed in the riot which follows.

In -130, Fulvius becomes member of the charged commission of work of census of the grounds envisaged by the land reform ( Lex Sempronia ) ^,. Work trails in length, and certain opponents with this project of distribution of the grounds suggest granting in replacement the established among with the citizens of the cities and allied people of Rome in Italy; Fulvius appuye this idea when he is consul, but runs up against the refusal of the Senate, and gives up this project. In -125, it is Consul. The senate sends it to help Massalia (Marseilles), allied city of Rome, whose colonies are unceasingly plundered by their neighbors: ligure , the Salyens and the Voconces. It is the first Roman intervention in Gaulle transalpine. He triumphs in -123.

In -122, it is military Tribun to help Caius Sempronius Gracchus by applying a modified version of its policy of the citizenship for Italians

In -121, it and Caius Gracchus did not gain the elections with the tribunat plebs. Flaccus carries out a protest with its partisans on the hill of the Aventin, but the consul Lucius Opimius with the agreement of the Sénat, killed Caius Gracchus, Flaccus and its two sons, and much of others their partisans.

Flaccus had a son called Marcus Fulvius Flaccus Bambalus. Bambalus married Sempronia Graccha, girl of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, which gave him a girl, Fulvia Flacca Bambula, known as Fulvie. Fulvie married successively Clodius Pulcher, then Marc Antoine.

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