Note 663 — Chapter VI · THE GRACCHI, MARIUS, AND SYLLA. (621-676.)
Reading edition
Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 7. According to what Polybius says, the period of service was fixed at ten years, for we read in Plutarch: “Caius Gracchus said to the censors that, obliged only by the law to ten campaigns, he had made twelve.” (Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 4.)