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Often appears with: omens, portents, and signs · tiberius gracchus · strategy and the aims of war · ptolemy offers crown · omens and portent interpretation · messengers to allies · marriage and betrothal · lydian military response · horse behavior in omens · diplomacy and embassies · cornelia
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Plutarch shifts to the Roman Gracchi, explaining that Tiberius Gracchus died after a serpents’ omen involving Cornelia, leaving twelve children, and describing Cornelia’s refusal to accept King Ptolemy’s crown.
TIBERIUS GRACCHUS Having completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in the Roman couple, and with the lives of Agis and Cleomenes, compare these of Tiberius and Caius. They were the sons of Tiberius Gracchus, who, though he had been once censor, twice consul, and twice had triumphed, yet was more renowned and esteemed for his virtue than his honors. U…
At Sardis Croesus sees a serpent omen in the suburb, consults Telmessians about what it means, continues preparing for alliance gathering, and then faces Cyrus’s rapid advance into Lydia.
assemble at Sardis by the fifth month, but these he was sending out to ask them to come to his assistance as quickly as possible, because Croesus was being besieged. 82. So then in sending to his other allies he sent also to Lacedemon. But these too, the Spartans I mean, had themselves at this very time (for so it had fallen out) a quarrel in hand with the Argives about the district called Thyrea. For this Thyrea, b…