At last, in 366 B. C., the famous Licinian Laws were carried, to-wit:
(1) That the interest already paid by debtors should be deducted from
the capital of the debt, and the remainder paid off in three equal
annual instalments; (2) That no one should hold above five hundred
jugera (about two hundred and eighty acres) of the public land, the
surplus to be divided among the poorer Plebeians; (3) That the military
tribunate with consular power should be abolished, and the consulship
restored; but one Consul, at least, henceforward, should be a Plebeian.
Sextius was himself elected, in 366 B. C., as the first Plebeian consul.
All the other offices, dictatorship, censorship, prætorship, etc., were
soon thrown open to the Commons,--so that at last, after the long
struggle, perfect political equality was established.