the Roman voters loved this bidding war for their favour and were not at all prepared to remove any of the participants from the political stage. So Gaius Gracchus had to put up with Livius Drusus, and while Livius Drusus was prepared to go further than Gracchus in almost any direction, he drew the line at extending the citizenship. This he vetoed, and there was nothing Gaius Gracchus could do about it.
