My understanding is that the plebs eventually walked out of the city. This act deprived the city of the actual laboring class that produced the food and prompted the patricians to create the office of Tribune of the Plebs. The Tribune of the Plebs was given the power to veto acts of the Senate altogether and they eventually gained the power to present legislation directly to the Plebian Assembly. Gaius Marius, as Consul, bribed a Tribune to use this ability to introduce legislation to his benefit, namely by stripping command of the Numidian war from Quintus Caecilius Metellus and giving it to himself. Marius would repeat this legislative tactic to attempt the same usurpation of command against Lucius Cornelius Sulla who was going to fight Mithridates, King of Pontus. This lead Sulla to march on Rome and inspired the first Roman Civil War. One could make the argument that the overpowered Tribune of the Plebs office was responsible.
The fight club bathroom scene.
"Don't fuck with us"
Sulla restored order to Rome by winning the first civil war and becoming dictator. His conservative reforms stripped the Tribunate of its power and heavily favored the patrician elite. These reforms would be slowly chipped away over the next 20 years until Julius Caesar, a nephew-in-law of Gaius Marius, reinvigorated the populist Marian faction, plunging Rome into another civil war that would transform the Republic into a Military Autocracy.
What about the benefits of the dictator?
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