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Lucius Opimius

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Lucius Opimius was a Roman politician who held the consulship in 121 BC, in which capacity and year he ordered the execution of 3,000 supporters of popular leader Gaius Gracchus without trial, using as pretext the state of emergency declared after Gracchus's recent and turbulent death. He was censured in 116 BC by a tribunal investigating illicit bribes taken from Jugurtha, king of Numidia, by his commission tasked with dividing territory between the king and his brother. He then left Rome to Dyrrhachium in exile where he later died. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucius Opimius is the 12,931st most popular politician (down from 10,846th in 2019). (down from 2,482nd in 2019)

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Among politicians, Lucius Opimius ranks 12,931 out of 19,576. Before him are Giuseppe Delfino, José María Bocanegra, Mirza Kuchik Khan, Ottokar II of Styria, Gyula Breyer, and Arsenio Martínez Campos. After him are Christer Pettersson, Louis Bastien, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Jakup Krasniqi, Ariobarzanes of Persis, and Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.

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Among people born in 150 BC, Lucius Opimius ranks 41. Before him are Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Artaxias I of Iberia, Gaius Hostilius Mancinus, Decimus Junius Silanus, Marcus Aurelius Cotta, and Lucius Marcius Philippus. After him are Appius Claudius Pulcher, Manius Aquillius, Laodice V, Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla, Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus, and Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia.

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