Idemque Q. Metellum censorem, quod ab eo tamquam Gracchi filio censum recipere nolebat, lapidibus prosternere conatus est, adfirmantem tres tantummodo filios Ti. Graccho fuisse, e quibus unum in Sardinia stipendia merentem, alterum infantem Praeneste, tertium post patris mortem natum Romae decessisse, neque oportere clarissimae familiae ignotas sordes inseri, cum interim improvida concitatae multitudinis temeritas'pro impudentia et audacia!'adversus consulatum et censuram tetendit, principesque suos omni petulantiae genere vexavit.
The same people tried to stone Censor Q. Metellus to the ground, because he refused to accept this mans census return as Gracchus son. He stated that Ti. Gracchus had only three sons, one of whom had died on military service in Sardinia, the second at Praeneste in infancy, the third, born after his fathers death, in Rome. It was not right, he said, that unknowns of low origin should be thrust into a very illustrious family. But the blind temerity of the excited crowd (what impudence and audacity!) pressed on against Consulship and Censorship and harassed their leaders with every sort of offensive behaviour.
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