L. Septimuleius
of Anagnia, although a friend of C. Gracchus, carried the head of the latter to the consul Opimius, and obtained for it its weight in gold, in accordance with a proclamation which had been made at the beginning of the contest. It is related that Septimuleius took out the brain, ;nd put melted lead in its stead, or, according to another version of the story, filled the mouth with lead. (Plut. C. Gracch. 17; V. Max. 9.4.3; Plin. Nat. 33.14; Cic. de Orat. 2.67.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.