The Man Who Surpasses Gaius, Says Plutarch

The big discussion in late republican history is whether populist players really do have the ordinary people in mind, or are they just playing for power. But it's very clear that those that you might put in the senatorial faction played to the people at times and were called populariss at times. So it's not as easy to divide them into these sort of quasi political parties. And livius drusus is definitely in that populos game. It's pretty much got, you know, everything that gaius does at this point livius will show up and outdo him.