Talk:Sempronia (sister of the Gracchi)

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Name edit

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I cannot find any support for the name "Sempronia Gracchae" found in this article. Sempronia is nominative singular, and Gracchae is either genetive or dative singular or nominative plural. In theory the second name could identify Sempronia as a daughter of one of the Gracchi, but in that case the name would be masculine, Gracchi, "of Gracchus", not feminine.

The nominative form of Sempronia's cognomen would be Graccha, but I do not find it in any of my sources, and cognomina were not generally used by women unless there were several of them belonging to different branches of their gens. If there were two different women with this nomen and cognomen, they would be Semproniae Gracchae, not Sempronia Gracchae.

Because Sempronia is usually called by that name alone, I have changed the introductory paragraph to reflect the usual practice. If someone can find her as Sempronia Graccha or something similar in an ancient source, this may be changed. P Aculeius (talk) 16:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Deaths of nephews edit

I have removed the statement: "who had become Tiberius' heir (after his three sons all died young)" from the section Later Years, as there is not agreement among scholars as to the date of the death of Tiberius' last surviving son. It may have been in c. 126 while serving with his uncle in Sardinia, but it may have been as late as 111, in which case he would have outlived his uncle and retained some of the family property until his death. David Stockton in "The Gracchi" summarises arguments for and against each death date on page 30.

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