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Gaius Papirius Carbo
Carbo

Carbo was a plebeian family within the Papirius of ancient Rome. Several members were notable:* Gaius Papirius Carbo , praetor 168 BC* Gaius Papirius Carbo , consul 120 BC...
 was an Ancient Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 statesman
Statesman

A statesman or stateswoman or statesperson is usually a politician or other notable figure of state who has had a long and respected career in politics at the national and international level....
 and orator
Orator

An orator, or oratist, is a speaker.An orator may also be called an oratarian - literally, "he who orates".Etymology...
. He was associated with Gaius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus was a Ancient Rome politician of the 2nd century BC. He was the younger brother of Tiberius Gracchus and, like him, pursued a popular political agenda that ultimately ended in his death....
 in carrying out the provision of the agrarian law of Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Gracchus

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Ancient Rome politician of the 2nd century BC and brother of Gaius Gracchus. As a tribune, he caused political turmoil in the Roman Republic by his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms....
. When tribune
Tribune

Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
 of the people (131 BC) he carried a law extending voting by ballot to the enactment and repeal of laws; another proposal, that the tribunes should be allowed to become candidates for the same office in the year immediately following, was defeated by the Scipio Aemilianus.






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Gaius Papirius Carbo
Carbo

Carbo was a plebeian family within the Papirius of ancient Rome. Several members were notable:* Gaius Papirius Carbo , praetor 168 BC* Gaius Papirius Carbo , consul 120 BC...
 was an Ancient Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 statesman
Statesman

A statesman or stateswoman or statesperson is usually a politician or other notable figure of state who has had a long and respected career in politics at the national and international level....
 and orator
Orator

An orator, or oratist, is a speaker.An orator may also be called an oratarian - literally, "he who orates".Etymology...
. He was associated with Gaius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus was a Ancient Rome politician of the 2nd century BC. He was the younger brother of Tiberius Gracchus and, like him, pursued a popular political agenda that ultimately ended in his death....
 in carrying out the provision of the agrarian law of Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Gracchus

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Ancient Rome politician of the 2nd century BC and brother of Gaius Gracchus. As a tribune, he caused political turmoil in the Roman Republic by his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms....
. When tribune
Tribune

Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
 of the people (131 BC) he carried a law extending voting by ballot to the enactment and repeal of laws; another proposal, that the tribunes should be allowed to become candidates for the same office in the year immediately following, was defeated by the Scipio Aemilianus. Carbo was suspected of having been involved in the sudden death of Scipio (129). He subsequently went over to the optimates, and (when consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
 in 120 BC) successfully defended Lucius Opimius
Lucius Opimius

Lucius Opimius was Roman Republic consul in 121 BC, most infamously known for during his consular year ordering the death of 3,000 supporters of popular leader Gaius Gracchus without trial, using a state of emergency declared after Gracchus turbulent death as an excuse....
, the murderer of Gaius Gracchus, when he was impeached for the murder of citizens without a trial, and even went so far as to say that Gracchus had been justly slain. But the optimates did not trust Carbo. He was impeached by Marcus Licinius Crassus
Marcus Licinius Crassus

Marcus Licinius Crassus was a Roman Republic general and politician who commanded Sulla's decisive victory at Battle of the Colline Gate, suppressed the Slavery revolt led by Spartacus and entered into a secret pact, known as the First Triumvirate, with Pompey and Julius Caesar....
 on a similar charge, and, feeling that he had nothing to hope for from the optimates and that his condemnation was certain, he committed suicide.