 At the close of 175 BC, he returned to Rome and was honored with a triumph.In 169 BC, he was chosen censor with his former consular colleague Gaius Claudius Pulcher, but his censorship was so strict that it provoked an attempted prosecution of his co-censor.Tiberius offered to go into exile with his co-censor, at which point the prosecution was dropped owing to Gracchus' popularity.