However Gaius's plans to extend rights to non-Roman Italians were eventually vetoed by another Tribune.

Another problem for Gaius's aims was that the Roman constitution, specifically the Tribal Assembly, was designed to prevent any one individual governing for a sustained period of time – and there were several other checks and balances to prevent power being concentrated on any one person.

So Philo being thus affronted, went out, and said to those Jews who were about him, that they should be of good courage, since Gaius's words indeed showed anger at them, but in reality had already set God against himself.

With Gaius's support from the people weakened, the consul Lucius Opimius was able to crush the Gracchan movement by force – Gaius lost his life and about 3000 of his supporters died in the fighting or in emergency execution shortly afterwards.

When Christiana's party leaves Gaius's Inn and Mr. Feeble-mind lingers in order to be left behind, he is encouraged to accompany the party by Greatheart: But brother ...

* JAMES, fourth and youngest son, who marries Phoebe, Gaius's daughter.

* Phoebe, Gaius's daughter, who marries JAMES.

* Mr. Ready-to-Halt, a pilgrim who meets CHRISTIANA's train of pilgrims at Gaius's door, and becomes the companion of Mr. Feeble-mind, to whom he gives one of his crutches.

The Ramirez brothers were also along.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.

Palfrey's brothers each received lots of sixteen Negroes, and for bookkeeping purposes it was agreed that all lots were to be valued at $6,666.66.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

Police said the boys are natural brothers and were adopted as small children by the Dresbachs.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

Along with his two brothers, he made preparations to resist the government forces that were sent against him.

As proof of devotion to his family, Caligula arranged the most distinguished soldiers available to carry the urns of his mother and two brothers in two biers at noon in Rome, when the streets were at their busiest, to the Mausoleum of Augustus.

Agrippina's two elder brothers and her mother were victims of the intrigues of the Praetorian Prefect Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

Alcaeus and his older brothers were passionately involved in the struggle but experienced little success.

Already closely connected to the Komnenoi through Maria's cousin Irene to Isaac Komnenos, the Komnenoi brothers were able to see the empress under the pretense of a friendly family visit.

As a result, Alexios and Constantine, Maria's son, were now adoptive brothers and both Isaac and Alexios took an oath that they would safeguard his rights as emperor.

The first years of his reign were marked instead by internal disturbances between Afonso and his brothers and sisters.

The Wright brothers were the first to fly in a powered and controlled aircraft.

Previous flights were gliders ( control but no power ) or free flight ( power but no control ), but the Wright brothers combined both, setting the new standard in aviation records.

His two brothers were sentenced to death for piracy by Ladislaus of Naples.

Fortunately in 1972 the brothers Molenaar bailed it out and invested heavily in the club, to the point that AZ ' 67 were successful in the late seventies and early eighties.

His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

He was a successor of Moctezuma and his brothers were Emperors Tizoc and Ahuitzotl and his sister was the Queen Chalchiuhnenetzin.

These negotiations were complicated by the sudden death of Lord George on 21 September 1848, but Disraeli obtained a loan of £ 25, 000 ( equivalent to about £ as of ) from Lord George's brothers Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield.

She had three elder brothers, Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and the future Emperor Caligula, and two younger sisters, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

In 67 disturbances broke out in Judaea and Nero, ordering Vespasian to take command of the Roman forces, summoned Corbulo, as well as two brothers who were the governors of Upper and Lower Germany, to Greece.

His siblings included two brothers Julius Caesar ( Caligula ) and Nero ( son of Germanicus ) | Nero and three sisters ( Julia Livilla, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger ).

Drusilla also had two sisters ( Julia Livilla and the Empress Agrippina the Younger ) and two other brothers ( Nero and Drusus ).

Nero, recognizing the urgency of the situation and the enormous threat that a merging of the Carthaginian brothers ' armies would present to Rome, circumvented the authority of the Senate, instead advising them to organize levies for their own protection.

Important members of this family included three brothers who lived in the reigns of Claudius and Nero.

Drusus and Livilla had three children, a daughter named Julia in 5 AD and twin brothers in 19 AD: of these Germanicus Gemellus died in 23, whereas Tiberius Gemellus survived his infancy.

Nero's siblings included four brothers ( Tiberius and Gaius Julius, who died young ; Drusus Caesar ; and the future Emperor Caligula ) and three sisters ( Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla, and Julia Livilla ).

The following highlights are drawn from Mommsen's renderings of figures of ancient Rome, namely: Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, the Gracchi brothers, Marius, Drusus, Sulla, Pompey, Cato, Caesar, and Cicero.

The brothers were charged with plotting against the Roman Emperor Tiberius, Germanicus, and Julius Caesar Drusus in 16.