Gracchanus

Gracchus, i, m., a Roman family name in the gens Sempronia;

the most celebrated are the two brothers Ti. and C. Sempronius Gracchus,

sons of Ti. Sempronius and Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus the elder, Cic. Brut. 86, 296; id. Phil. 7, 6, 17:

Cornelia, mater Gracchorum,

id. Brut. 58, 210; Juv. 6, 168:

Gracchi de seditione querentes,

id. 2, 24.—

II.

Deriv.

A.

Gracchā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Gracchus, Gracchan:

judices,

i. e. the knights who were made judges by a law of C. Gracchus, Cic. Brut. 34, 128:

tumultus,

Val. Max. 1, 1:

mala,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 6.—

B.

Grac-chūris, ĭdis, f., a town in Spain founded by Ti. Sempronius Gracchus:

Ti. Sempronius Gracchus proconsul Celtiberos victos in deditionem accepit, monumentumque operum suorum Gracchurim oppidum in Hispania constituit,

Liv. Ep. 41; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 97 Müll.—Hence, Gracchū-rĭtāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Gracchuris, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 24.