A few years later, Tiberius was elected praetor and prorogued pro consule to Spain; he won victories there for which he was awarded a triumph.
[14] Tiberius was no friend nor political ally to the Scipios, but felt that the general's services to Rome merited his release from the threat of trial.
Some of the ancient sources, most especially Livy and Valerius Maximus, claim that Africanus betrothed his daughter Cornelia to Gracchus in gratitude.
[15] Plutarch, referencing Polybius, more credibly relates that the betrothal occurred after Africanus' death, with his heirs making the match.
[18] His next office was that of curule aedile in 182 BC, during which he put on such lavish games that the senate resolved a cap on their expenses to curb their costs on Rome's Italian allies and its provinces.
[23] In the coming two decades, Roman expansion in Spain also took a lower priority as the senate focused Rome's military resources on Macedonia.
[28] Upon his return, the senate awarded him a triumph "over Lusitania and Spain"[20] where he and his colleague Albinus presented some 60 thousand pounds of silver.
[35][6] Supposedly, during his censorship, citizens extinguished their lights when Gracchus passed at night from fear of being thought overly indulgent.
[35][6] After his censorship, in 165 BC, Gracchus was dispatched as head of an embassy to various eastern kingdoms on a mission to investigate the attitudes thereof to Rome, reporting that all had favourable views of the Romans.
[39] The consuls were forced to resign,[40] one of which was his brother-in-law Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, husband of his wife's elder sister.
[41] He returned to Rome late in 162 BC (the first year of his promagistracy) to become an ambassador to examine conditions in Greece and Asia, and to settle various disputes with neighbouring Hellenistic kingdoms.
She refused to remarry, although she was offered marriage by several Roman senators and by the Egyptian king Ptolemy VIII; Cornelia devoted the rest of her life to the education and upbringing of her sons.