Tiberius and Caius Gracchus

Tiberius, accordingly, who loved his wife, and thought that since she was still young and he was older it was more fitting that he should die, killed the male serpent, but let the female go. A short time afterwards, as the story goes, he died,[*](He was consul for the second time in 163 B.C. The year of his death is unknown. This story is told and commented on by Cicero in De divinatione i. 18, 36; ii. 29, 62.) leaving Cornelia with twelve children by him.