The Senate Decided, It's Enough

The republican constitution is not offering much to the vast majority of free people yo have been deprived of land. The thing that has to happen, in tiberiu's view, is to keep him in power. Plutarch says he went down into the forum and pleaded with the citizens in humble tone. He touched the emotions of his audience so powerfully that many of them encamped outside his house and spent the night there on guard.