Therefore, Livy was in a good position to obtain primary source information regarding the major key players of the demise of the Republic. ... Gracchus was a quaestor serving under Scipio Aemilianus in the Third Punic War, and supposedly realized the need for land reform while passing through Etruria and seeing that all of the land was worked by slaves, rather than Romans (Plutarch, Life of Tiberius, 8.7). ... It was after this that Gracchus, perceived as acting like some sort of tyrant by the Optimates, was murdered by a gang under their control (Plutarch, Life of Tiberius, 19.5). ...

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