... conservative Optimate faction, whose members owned the land to be redistributed. To get this legislation passed, however, he was forced to propose another law that illegally removed the tribune Marcus Octavius from office. He did so, and in passing the law, started with his brother Gaius, and Appius Claudius, dividing up land to be distributed to the poor. The final straw ... ...

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