Editing Tiberius Gracchus (section)

== Aftermath of Tiberius' death ==
[[File:Gracchan land distributions.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|Map showing areas where Gracchan {{Lang|la|[[cippus|cippi]]}} have been found or are likely in consequence of Tiberius' {{Lang|la|lex Sempronia}}.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|p=253}} ]]

Tiberius' agrarian law was not repealed.{{sfn|Brunt|1988|pp=466–67}} His position on the agrarian commission was filled; the commission's business continued over the next few years: its progress can be observed in recovered boundary stones stating the commissioners' names.{{sfn|Beard|2015|p=224}} Most of those boundary stones bear the names of Gaius Gracchus, Appius Claudius Pulcher, and Publius Licinius Crassus.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|p=240}} An increase in the register of citizens in the next decade suggests a large number of land allotments.{{sfn|Scullard|1982|p=26}} But that registration could also be related to greater willingness to register: registration brought the chance of getting land from the commission.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|p=254}} It also could have been related to lowering of the property qualifications for census registration into the fifth class from four thousand to 1.5 thousand ''asses''.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|p=255}}

The activities of the land commission started to slow after 129&nbsp;BC. The senate pounced on complaints from Italian allies that the land commissioners were unfairly seizing land from Italians. Scipio Aemilianus, arguing on behalf of the Italians, convinced the state to move decisions on Italian land away from the land commissioners to the consuls; the consuls promptly did nothing, stalling the commission's ability to acquire new land to distribute.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|p=241}} However, over the few years of the commission's most fruitful activities, the amount of land distributed was substantial: the Gracchan boundary stones are found all over southern Italy. They distributed some 1.3 million {{Lang|la|jugera}} (or 3,268 square kilometres), accommodating somewhere between 70,000 and 130,000 settlers.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|pp=252–54}} Shortly after this intervention, Scipio died mysteriously, leading to unsubstantiated rumours that his wife (also Tiberius Gracchus' sister), Gaius Gracchus, or other combinations of Gracchan allies had murdered him.{{sfn|Lintott|1994|p=74}} These charges are not believed by modern historians.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Santangelo |first=Federico |date=2007 |title=A survey of recent scholarship on the age of the Gracchi (1985-2005) |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/topoi_1161-9473_2007_num_15_2_2250 |journal=Topoi |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=465–510 |doi=10.3406/topoi.2007.2250 |quote=There is no strong evidence or credible argument to support any alternative hypothesis.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Worthington |first=Ian |date=1989 |title=The Death of Scipio Aemilianus |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4476690 |journal=Hermes |volume=117 |issue=2 |pages=253–256 |jstor=4476690 |issn=0018-0777}}</ref>

Some Gracchan supporters were prosecuted in special courts established by the senate under the supervision of the consuls for 132&nbsp;BC.{{sfn|Mouritsen|2017|p=169}}{{sfn|Gruen|1968|p=60}} The special court, however, was not some kind of political purge; it largely acted against politically unimportant people and non-citizens. Scipio Nasica, after being brought up on the charge of murdering Tiberius Gracchus,{{sfn|Gruen|1968|p=63}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Alexander|first=Michael Charles|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41156621|title=Trials in the late Roman republic: 149 BC to 50 BC|date=1990|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=0-8020-5787-X|location=Toronto|oclc=41156621|page=11}}</ref> was sent on a convenient delegation to [[Pergamon|Pergamum]], where he died the following year.{{sfn|Beard|2015|p=225}} The senate, in so doing, conveyed at least a tacit approval of Tiberius' murder.{{sfn|Lintott|1994|pp=72–73}}