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Lucius Opimius

150 BC - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucius Opimius has received more than 60,127 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lucius Opimius is the 10,851st most popular politician (up from 11,715th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lucius Opimius ranks 10,851 out of 19,576. Before him are Kurt Hahn, François Bayrou, Magnus V of Norway, William VII, Marquis of Montferrat, Jack Sharkey, and Félix Éboué. After him are Elizabeth Monroe, Remismund, Artatama II, Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, Vasco de Almeida e Costa, and Sadeq Khan Zand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 150 BC, Lucius Opimius ranks 30. Before him are Hortensia, Sextus Julius Caesar, Lucius Afranius, Apollodorus the Epicurean, Lucius Afranius, and Lucius Licinius Lucullus. After him are Gaius Hostilius Mancinus, Decimus Junius Silanus, Artavasdes I of Armenia, Ptolemy of Cyprus, Appius Claudius Pulcher, and Artaxias I of Iberia.

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