hostis iudicatus, ultimo supplicio adfectus, sepulturae honore spoliatus, benivolentia tamen eius non caruit: nam cum senatus Rupilio et Laenati consulibus mandasset ut in eos qui cum Graccho consenserant more maiorum animadverterent, et ad Laelium, cuius consilio praecipue consules utebantur, pro se Blossius deprecatum venisset familiaritatisque excusatione uteretur, atque is dixisset quid si te Gracchus templo Iovis Optimi Maximi faces subdere iussisset? obsecuturusne illius voluntati propter istam, quam iactas, familiaritatem fuisti?, numquam istud inquit Gracchus imperasset.
Gracchus was judged a public enemy, punished with the ultimate penalty, deprived of the honour of burial, but he did not lose Blossius good will. For when the senate had commissioned Consuls Rupilius and Laenas to punish Gracchus fellow conspirators according to ancestral custom, Blossius came to Laelius, on whose counsel the Consuls especially relied, to ask pardon and pleaded the excuse of friendship. Laelius asked: What if Gracchus had told you to set fire to the temple of Jupiter Best and Greatest? Would you have obeyed his wish because of the friendship you talk so much about? Blossius answered: Gracchus would never have given such a command.
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