Editing Gracchi brothers (section)

==== Effects ====
Tiberius' {{lang|la|lex agraria}} and the commission survived his death. Opposition was to Tiberius' methods rather than his policies; it is likely that most senators agreed with the reform programme in principle.{{sfnm|Mackay|2009|1p=55|Lintott|1994b|2p=73}} Archaeologists have recovered the commission's boundary stones ({{lang|la|cippi}}), which documenting the three commissioners' activities from 133 to 130&nbsp;BC.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Roselaar |first=Saskia T |date=2009 |title=References to Gracchan activity in the ''liber coloniarum'' |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25598462 |journal=Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=198–214 |doi=10.25162/historia-2009-0009 |jstor=25598462 |s2cid=160264713 |issn=0018-2311}} See also {{CIL|1|642}}; {{CIL|10|289}}.</ref> The boundary locations and descriptions imply the distribution over just a few years of some 3,268 square kilometres of land to Roman citizens, concentrated in southern Italy and benefitting some 15,000 households.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|pp=252–54}}

The {{lang|la|cippi}} largely name Tiberius' younger brother Gaius, [[Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 143 BC)|Appius Claudius Pulcher]], and [[Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus|Publius Licinius Crassus]].{{sfnm|Roselaar|2010|1pp=240–41|Broughton|1951|2p=495}} Tiberius appointed himself to the commission, but after his death, Crassus was elected in his place.{{sfn|Broughton|1951|p=495}} After the natural deaths of Appius Claudius and Crassus by 130&nbsp;BC, [[Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 125 BC)|Marcus Fulvius Flaccus]] and [[Gaius Papirius Carbo (consul 120 BC)|Gaius Papirius Carbo]] were elected in their place.{{sfn|Broughton|1951|p=503}}

Because one of the commission's goals was in reasserting Roman claims to land which by that time had long been occupied by the Italian allies, the allies started to complain of unfairness and inaccurate rushed surveying.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|pp=240–41}} In 129, those complaints were heard by the senate, who also took the opportunity to limit the agrarian commission's powers.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|p=240}} [[Scipio Aemilianus]] proposed and received from the senate a decree which assigned the power to determine contested ownership to the consuls. By 129&nbsp;BC, the commission had over some three years already distributed all the available uncontested land. Archaeological finds of Gracchan {{lang|la|cippi}} largely stop after 129&nbsp;BC.{{sfn|Roselaar|2010|p=241}}