Tiberius and Caius Gracchus

Tiberius, then, as soon as he got past boyhood, was so widely known as to be thought worthy of a place among the priests called Augurs; and this was due to his virtues rather than to his excellent birth, as was clearly shown by Appius Claudius. For Appius, who had been consul and censor, had been made Dean of the Roman senate[*](Princeps Senatus.) by virtue of his dignity, and in loftiness of spirit far surpassed his contemporaries, at a banquet of the augurs[*](Presumably at the induction of Tiberius into office.) addressed Tiberius with words of friendship, and asked him to become the husband of his daughter.